Tasted blind at the Burgundy 2012 tasting in Beaune. The 2012 Corton Charlemagne Grand Cru from Vincent Girardin has a commercial, punter-friendly bouquet with flecks of white chocolate littered over the citrus fruit, but it becomes oxidised with time. The palate has a disorientating vein of dryness on the entry. This feels a little mean, very linear but it would have benefitted from more weight and delineation on the finish that has a slight sourness. I actually prefer some of Girardin’s white premier cru to this.