Domaine Pierre Vincent is a small, family estate based in the Côte de Beaune with holdings in several Grand Cru and Premier Cru white wine vineyards, including a parcel in Corton-Charlemagne, the 70-hectare Grand Cru spread across multiple communes above the Corton hill whose old-vine Chardonnay produces white wine of extraordinary weight, mineral precision and ageing potential. Corton-Charlemagne at its finest is one of the longest-lived and most structurally ambitious white Burgundies: dense, impenetrable and almost forbidding in its youth, it develops over fifteen to twenty years in the cellar into a wine of extraordinary complexity combining honey, beeswax, cinnamon, hazelnut and a mineral depth of granite and chalk that has no close parallel in any other white Burgundy appellation. Domaine Pierre Vincent’s holding within this Grand Cru benefits from the same careful farming and minimal-intervention philosophy that governs the estate’s approach across all its vineyards.

The 2023 Burgundy white wine vintage produced wines of excellent natural freshness and aromatic precision, with a slightly lighter and more immediately accessible character than the concentrated 2022 or the intense 2021. For a wine of Corton-Charlemagne’s inherent structural ambition, the 2023’s natural freshness provides an ideal balance of concentration and energy, ensuring that the wine’s considerable ageing potential is complemented by an approachability in its first decade that the very greatest Corton-Charlemagne vintages rarely provide. The wine has been aged in a proportion of French oak, both new and seasoned, consistent with the estate’s approach to this Grand Cru.

Corton-Charlemagne from a small, quality-focused family domaine provides access to one of white Burgundy’s most prestigious and age-worthy appellations at prices that reflect the estate’s modest commercial profile rather than the Grand Cru’s considerable prestige. For collectors who seek Corton-Charlemagne character and longevity from a genuine independent producer, this is a compelling and honest proposition.

Pale gold with a focused and mineral nose of white peach, lemon cream, toasted almond, chalk mineral and a restrained floral note from the Corton-Charlemagne limestone and granite soils. Full-bodied with excellent natural freshness, good concentration and a long, mineral, structured finish of genuine Grand Cru depth and persistence. Best from 2028 through 2045.