The 2008 Corton-Charlemagne wraps around the palate with honey, spices, butter and rich, at times tropical, fruit. The beautifully centered finish offers a serious core of minerality and inner sweetness. Today, the 2008 appears to be more than one year older than the 2009. In exchange, though, it is also far closer to being ready to drink.

Full straw-yellow. Very ripe yet high-pitched aromas of wet stone, hawthorn and botanical herbs. Broad, silky and sweet, with a three-dimensional quality to the superrich yet sharply delineated flavors of crushed stone, violet and lavender. Perhaps best today on the superb rising finish, where the wine's compelling vibrancy carries through. Another wine of great dimension. Lardiere used 60% new oak here, but the wood element is fully integrated and virtually invisible. Showing spectacularly well today, perhaps due in part to the fact that this wine finished its fermentation early.

Don't miss! A highly complex nose of pain grillé, cool green fruit laced with floral and anise hints leads to rich, powerful, naturally sweet and impressively intense full-bodied flavors that possess an overt muscularity as well as buckets of dry extract that really coats the mouth on the long and distinctly dry finish. Drink: 2018+
-Allen Meadows, Burghound.com, Issue 39. Tasted: Jun 01, 2010

eRobertParker.com June, 2013 The 2008 Corton-Charlemagne has a delightful, lifted bouquet of patisserie and vanilla, hints of apricot blossom developing with aeration. The palate is crisp on the entry with grapefruit, pineapple and a touch of melted butter. There is a fine seam of acidity with a crisp, apple blossom and passion fruit finish. This Corton-Charlemagne is just beginning to open, although I would be inclined to afford it another three or four years in bottle. Tasted December 2012. Robert Parker's Wine Advocate 31/08/2012

The 2008 Corton-Charlemagne wraps around the palate with honey, spices, butter and rich, at times tropical, fruit. The beautifully centered finish offers a serious core of minerality and inner sweetness. Today, the 2008 appears to be more than one year older than the 2009. In exchange, though, it is also far closer to being ready to drink. Anticipated maturity: 2013+.

Once again, I tasted with Jacques Lardiere and Frederic Barnier during a marathon session that lasted several hours. Lardiere has been on a whirlwind tour celebrating his last year at Jadot before his long-announced retirement, but I will believe he is stepping down when I see it. Lifers like Lardiere simply don’t retire. As for the wines, Jadot’s 2010s are unqualified successes across the board. Of course, the wines from the most prestigious appellations are often compelling, but frankly I find just as much joy in discovering the many fabulous Burgundies from unheralded villages that are sprinkled throughout this portfolio. Lardiere and Barnier first thought 2010 was better for reds than whites, but that gap has narrowed recently in their opinion. Yields were down 15-20% for the whites (less than the reds), because of the December, 2009 frost and irregular flowering the following spring. A number of wines were chaptalized approximately 0.5%. The 2010 whites were bottled between February and March 2012. I also tasted a handful of 2009s and 2008s, which I have included here as part of my goal to revisit wines from bottle on a regular basis. I continue to be thrilled by the Jadot 2009 whites, while the 2008s I tasted are mostly equally succesful. Jadot fans know that this venerable winery is composed of several brands; Maison Louis Jadot, Domaine Louis Jadot, Heritiers de Louis Jadot, Domaine Duc de Magenta and Domaine Gagey. In the interest of simplicity, I have listed all of the wines in this section under Domaine/Maison Jadot. There are two cases in which a wine is made by more than one of the labels, in which case the corresponding tasting note indicates which wine was tasted; they are the Chassagne-Montrachet premier cru Garenne and the Puligny-Montrachet premier cru Folatieres. (96)