2022 Domaine Genot Boulanger Corton Charlemagne Grand Cru

Domaine Genot Boulanger's share of Corton Charlemagne is just 0.29 hectare in the lieu dit "Le Charlemagne," planted mostly in 1940. The slope is very steep and faces southwest, with thin, poor, very stony soil over marl, and the domaine has trialed plowing the parcel with draft horses to avoid compacting it. It is the only white Grand Cru among roughly 30 appellations held by this Meursault family estate, founded in 1974, run since 2008 by Aude and Guillaume Lavollee and certified organic from the 2018 vintage. The 2022 was pressed as whole clusters, fermented in barrel with no added sulfur, aged 12 months with 10 to 15 percent new oak and six months in tank, and bottled unfiltered. It is made to show its site young and gain complexity with time in bottle.