Bouchard Pere & Fils Le Corton Grand Cru 2008

Professional Ratings

• 94 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  The Bouchard 2008 Le Corton offers especially saline and spicy accents to its deep red fruit and raw meat, sirloin juice-like flavors. Cedar, fresh ginger, white pepper, blond tobacco, and vanilla bean all make for a pungent aromatic and palate display, and a rich, almost velvety texture is reconciled with the sort of nearly electric vivacity and finishing resonance of which this vintage is so singularly and memorably capable. “The middle sector of the hillside gives the silkiness and the old vines backbone,” remarks Prost but the young vines and higher elevations, he goes on to explain aid the sense of vivacity. This should prove to be worth following for the better part of two decades. What’s more, it represents amazing value not only for a grand cru but more importantly for a red Burgundy this outstanding.
• 93 Wine & Spirits
  2008 Le Corton Grand Cru (Best Buy) Delicate scents of rose petals drive this sleek, juicy Corton right into a wall of new oak. There's a purr of refinement to the tannins, a power and persistence to their flavor that suggest the wine will live long after the oak recedes to a minor flash and the flavors head into overdrive.