2015 Domaine Coche-Dury Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru Burgundy 750 ml

There’s no doubt about it: A bottle bearing the Coche-Dury label generates as much excitement and envy as any wine on Earth. 

Now led by Raphaël Coche, who learned from his exacting and modest father Jean-François, Domaine Coche-Dury meticulously priceless old-vine parcels in the Côte d’Or. Centered around Meursault, the Coches are reluctant wine-world celebrities: humble vine-tenders who just happen to make some of the most precious wines in existence. Anyone who gets to have a sip—let alone a glass, let alone a bottle—should consider themselves extremely lucky. 

Coche-Dury’s plot in the Grand Cru Corton-Charlemagne is just .33 hectares, or enough for about 128 cases of wine. These vines, planted in 1960, were 55 years old in the pitch-perfect vintage of 2015, one of Burgundy’s greatest harvests of the last 25 years. The age of the vines is critical to this wine’s shocking intensity and vinosity. 

This wine is profoundly aromatic, with lemon zest, crushed stone, almond butter, delicate florals, and flint. It’s weighty on the palate with impressive impact, a Grand Cru through and through. If you’re someone who has to have the best of anything, this is a perfect investment in pleasure.