2021 Domaine Ponsot, Corton Grand Cru, Cuvee du Bourdon

For reports and full tasting notes, go to Tim Atkin MW's website.

Especially supple and sensual this year, the 2021 Corton Grand Cru Cuvée du Bourdon delivers notes of sweet raspberries and strawberries mingled with orange zest and coniferous forest floor. Medium to full-bodied, ample and textural, with a fleshy attack, melting tannins and succulent acids, it's a gourmand, charming wine that will offer a broad drinking window.

Light in colour but intensely aromatic, the Corton Cuvée Bourdon shows a ripe plum fruit aroma with a hint of earth and a noticeable underpinning of dark chocolate. On the palate, the wine is deep and ripe. The wine is produced from young vines in Bressandes and somewhat older vines from Clos du Roi that are destemmed and gently fermented with minimal sulfur before ageing in used casks. Suitable for midterm ageing or drinking on the fruit.

The 2021 Corton Cuvée du Bourdon is perfumed and floral, quite Vosne-like, with peony and persimmon tincturing the vibrant red berry fruit. Airy in style. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, sappy and just a little New World-like in style thanks to its joie-de-vivre and breeziness. Ponsot's populist cuvée! Less has made something more.