The 2016 Château Corton-Grancey Grand Cru is showing very well from bottle, unfurling in the glass with a youthfully tight-knit bouquet of plums, cassis, subtle spices and incipient hints of forest floor. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with tangy acids, fine but firm structuring tannins and a long, expansive finish. Attractively complete and built for the cellar, this will reward bottle age.

The Corton Grancey is the pinnacle of Latour’s Corton range this year, opening with a complex bouquet of black fruit, forest floor, orange zest and a framing of cedary new oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, with a chassis of chalky tannins, underpinned by fresh, tense acids, and revealing excellent concentration and depth.

Moderate reduction and wood toast make for a very pungent nose. Otherwise there is excellent volume to the relatively refined mouth feel thanks to the dense but fine tannins shaping the youthfully austere, complex and impressively persistent finish. This will clearly need at least some bottle age as it's very firm at present.

Not much on the nose, then a load of primary red fruit on the palate which is still very youthful. Not much sense of terroir, unless you count the fruit intensity and firm structure. Perhaps more will come with time. (RH)

Lots of violet perfume on the nose, fine tannic grain on the palate, light intensity, short finish. Easy-going and smoothly balanced but finishes with tart bitterness. (RH)