Jacques Prieur, Corton Charlemagne Blanc Vintage:2016 green apple and white peach

green apple and white peach suffused nose

despite encouragement

yet still a little rough

A somber nose half-heartedly offers up notes of forest floor

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Jacques Prieur, Corton Charlemagne Blanc Vintage:2016 green apple and white peach(from a . 22 ha parcel in Le Corton). More subtle wood influence frames notes of lime, green apple, white flower and a bit of anise that can also be found on the intensely stony and big bodied flavors that are almost aggressively mineral in character before culminating in a palate staining and driving finish where the intensity does a slow but sure build from the dense mid palate to the explosive finale. This is not an elegant Corton Charlemagne but