2019 Louis Latour Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru 750 ml

“The 2019 vintage in Burgundy was extraordinary,” wrote the Wall Street Journal. And if there’s a white wine that shows off the full glory of that stellar vintage, it’s got to be Louis Latour’s absolutely stirring Corton-Charlemagne.

“Takes your breath away!” is how James Suckling described this outstanding bottle, which he calls “stunningly concentrated and powerful, but also so graceful.” It’s a bottle you’ll be glad to have in your cellar for the next decade and a half—and it will deliver rich rewards when you open it.  

2019 was historic in quality, but tiny in quantity. The warm, dry, truly great year had one vigneron comparing it to the legendary 1865. Despite the season’s abundance of sunshine, the wines are fresh and brisk with impressive concentration, a sublime feat that left Stuart Piggott, writing for James Suckling, declaring that the vintage “has hit the bullseye,” with its “rare combination of excellence and great consistency.”

For years, Louis Latour achieved an opulent Corton-Charlemagne style by being one of the last producers to harvest. But because of the warmer vintages that Burgundy now experiences, Latour now opts to pick earlier to achieve an ideal balance of ripeness and tension—and that was a perfect approach to 2019.

This is a creamy, energetic expression of one of the great Grands Crus in Burgundy—a bottle that belongs in the cellar of every white-wine lover seeking a sublime Burgundy experience, and one that will command the rapt attention of any table it graces. It’s simply a tour de force.