Wine Spectator Score: 92

Tanzer Score: 95

Score: 93-95 BH

Region: Burgundy

District: Corton

Type: Still Wine

Color: White

Varietal: Chardonnay

Vintage: 2004

Size: 3L

Available: 2

Brand: See more from Bouchard Pascal

Sku: 25541

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Wine Spectator Review:
Tightly wound and minerally. Lean yet intense, with lemon apple and oak spice flavors complementing the stone note Builds nicely on the palate, fleshing out and then lingering, with an aftertaste of spice and mineral. Best from 2009 through 2020.

Tanzer Review:
Pale, bright color. A quintessence of CortonCharlemagne dirt on the nose stone fruits, lemon, iodine, ginger minerals and mint, all complicated by a musky, leesy note that reminded me of a CocheDury wine. Then compellingly dense and penetrating in the mouth, with captivating soildriven flavors of raw pineapple, white peach, white flowers and crushed rock a sulfidey complexity and a saline element add to the wines spectacular subtle complexity. Hardly a blockbuster but conveys an impression of great solidity. This remarkably precise wine coats the palate with dusty stone and leaves behind a suggestion of honey. My sample at Bouchard in early June was painfully young and closed though obviously outstanding, but this bottle, tasted in New York in August, was spectacular. (Incidentally, my following notes on the ChevalierMontrachet, ChevalierMontrachet La Cabotte and Montrachet were from bottles tasted at Bouchardalso quite backward at the timeand I would expect my scores to prove to be conservative.)

Other Notes:
Green apple, white pear and hint of crushed herb are framed by gentle notes of pain grilli that combine with huge and unbelievably intense flavors blessed with phenomenal power and length. This has that wow factor as the flavors are both palate staining and almost painfully intense and the finale is like a block of stone. Burghound