Antonin Guyon, Corton Charlemagne Blanc other_regions_italy The 2010 Gloria has a

The 2010 Gloria has a very attractive and quite intense bouquet with a surfeit of blackberry and wild strawberry scents

A ripe and wonderfully fresh nose also flashes plenty of classic Chablis character on the white-fleshed fruit and floral nose where background notes of iodine and oyster shell are present

This lovely effort is textbook Combe d’Orveau and a wine that should age well over the next 12 to 15 years

This is a Bâtard of finesse and understated rather than overt muscle and imposing size and weight

Antonin Guyon, Corton Charlemagne Blanc other_regions_italy The 2010 Gloria has a(from parcels in Les Renardes, En Charlemagne and Le Charlemagne). Here too there are whiffs of sulfur but not so much as to completely mask the aromas of green apple, floral, petrol and a smoky nuance. As one would reasonably expect, there is markedly more volume and power to the large scaled if less refined flavors that possess much better mid palate density before terminating in an impressively lengthy finish. Good stuff that is built to age. (91