Vincent Girardin, Corton Charlemagne Blanc Vintage:2000 There is a little heat

There is a little heat on the palate that sticks out through the fruit

The 2005 Comtes de Champagne Rosé is a wine of contrasts

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but that allows the more savoury taste of an older wine to balance the creamy richness of the body

Vincent Girardin, Corton Charlemagne Blanc Vintage:2000 There is a little heat(from Ladoix fruit). A ripe and vaguely exotic nose grudgingly reveals its aromas of orange peel, green apple, white peach and a whiff of jasmine tea. The dense, muscular and powerful big bodied flavors exude a bracing salinity on the mouth coating, clean and dry finish that is firm and borderline rustic. This will need at least some patience and reward a decade plus of bottle aging.