Single-Owner Private Collection of Fine Wines from Bordeaux, Burgundy, Alsace and Champagne

Live Virtual Auction, 16 May 2021

Single-Owner Private Collection of Fine Wines

Sold for

ZAR 25 036
Lot 80
  • Bonneau du Martray; Corton-Charlemagne; 1996; 9 (1 x 9); 750ml


Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 39 998
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 25 036

About this Item

1996 Corton-Charlemagne
9 (1 x 9) 750ml

Provenance

Private Client

Critics Ratings

'A ripe and classic nose of distinctly discreet and reserved green fruit and floral aromas that are airy, pure and lightly spiced merge into intense, precise and penetrating medium full flavors blessed with terrific acid/fruit balance and huge length. This is really a lovely wine that is presently a tightly coiled spring and in need of extended bottle aging to really put on display the superb potential here. An understated stunner of a wine as well as ultra refined and one of the best examples of this appellation in 2005.' - Allen Meadows, Burghound.com, 95/100 (2008)

A ripe and slightly phenolic (think olive oil) nose is composed of mostly green fruit and floral aromas that are airy, pure and lightly spiced. There is fine intensity to the rich yet precise and penetrating medium full flavors that are blessed with terrific acid/fruit balance and huge length. This is really a lovely wine that is presently still on the way up in magnum format even though with some aeration it could be enjoyed now. - Allen Meadows, Burghound.com, 94/100 (2015)

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