($135, Louis Latour USA): Louis Latour, the largest owner of the Grand Cru Corton Charlemagne, consistently makes superb examples of that wine.  They show their glory with a decade of bottle age.  I’ve not tasted all producers’ Corton Charlemagne so I can’t say Latour is “the best,” but for the price, there’s nobody even close.  Latour’s 2014 Corton Charlemagne, certainly their best since 2010, is one of their best ever.  Tightly wound at this stage, it has all the hallmarks of evolving into a magnificent wine in a decade or so.  Underneath the tightly coiled spring of a wine lies enormous power and finesse that at this young stage is most apparent in the finish.  Tasted in March, it was even tighter and more closed, almost impenetrable, but seven months of bottles age gives an glimpse of its trajectory of development.  Although we at WineReviewOnline put numbers on our reviews, my notes say “WB”, for “would buy.”  I plan on cellaring it — you should too.
97 Michael Apstein Nov 1, 2016