2015 Louis Latour Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru Côte de Beaune 750 ml

This is the kind of bottle great cellars are built on, the summit of white Burgundy. With demand for top Burgundies soaring, and recent low-yielding vintages shrinking Grand Cru supply, it’s one that collectors will longingly remember, wishing they’d stocked up.

But we stocked up now, because this is a bottle that Wine Access Burgundy lovers need to experience. From the ever-stellar Louis Latour, who Decanter called “a master” of Corton-Charlemagne, this 2015’s 97-point score topped Grand Cru white Burgundies that cost more than 2X the price. 

Those facts alone are enough to raise eyebrows at a party. And after you pour Latour’s 2015 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru, you can watch all that info fade away as the conversation turns to its luxurious, fruit-and-spice complexity and its nimble intensity. It’s a wine that transcends the measurables, as impressive as they might be. 

But it’s an opportunity that might not last. Six years removed from the 2015 vintage—called a “rare phenomenon” by Wine Enthusiast—prices on wines like this one continue to skyrocket, like the 2015 Grand Cru whites from Domaine Faiveley and Bouchard Père & Fils. Here’s the thing: Louis Latour’s Corton-Charlemagne outscored them both, yet we’ve got it for a much lower price.

Burgundy’s spotlight is shining brighter than ever among collectors, yet many recent vintages have produced lower yields, elevating both prices and scarcity. Wine Enthusiast said Burgundy “hit the jackpot” with the 2015 vintage, but growing seasons this simultaneously outstanding and bountiful have been getting rarer. So we leveraged our long-standing relationship with Latour to give Wine Access members a chance at their own jackpot.   

The largest landowner in Corton-Charlemagne with 250 years of winemaking behind them, the Latour family has unmatched access to prime vineyard land. They produce exceptional wines from the appellation with alarming regularity, but even among their many years of excellence, this 2015 stands out.

Decanter called it “a towering success,” while James Suckling praised it as “a fantastic white,” but we think it goes beyond fantastic. This wine is profound. Notes of golden apple, pear, baking spice, hazelnut, yellow flower, and toast coalesce into a wave of aromas that never seems to crest. And somehow, the palate is even more expansive, loaded with flavors of tree fruit, toasted nuts, and oak spice, an intricacy born over six years in the cellar. Bearing Cellar Selection honors from Wine Enthusiast, it’ll achieve even further depth over the next decade. 

From the monumental hill of Corton-Charlemagne, Latour has crafted a spectacular and age-worthy white Burgundy expression. Standing atop the hill, you can see just what makes the land so special—limestone-rich soils and tennis-ball-sized stones that conjure complexity and muscularity. Latour polishes this gem with up to ten months in 100% new French oak, rounding out its array of flavors and contributing alluring depths.