leather and spice lead to a core of cherry and strawberry fruit

pear and wet stone where the latter element continues onto the rich

It is one of the best wines that Paul Pontallier ever made

Grivot in the middle and Arnoux at the bottom)

but the wine's aromas also veer toward crushed stone

Patrick Javillier, Corton Charlemagne Blanc Vintage:2010 leather and spice lead to(from Corton Pougets). This is the first wine to display any appreciable amount of wood and even here its quite subtle as it easily allows the notably exotic aromas of dried yellow fruit, lychee nut and dried tangerine peel infused aromas to shine. This is a markedly powerful effort, even by the elevated standards of Corton Charlemagne, with its dense and muscular big bodied flavors that terminate in a beautifully complex if mildly edgy and dry