====== Background information ====== \\ In vintage 1996: batonnage information unknown.\\ \\ ====== Wines ====== \\ ===== 1995 ===== * **Corton Charlemagne** (05 Mar 2004): Medium gold, fully mature, not oxidized [Don Cornwell] * **Corton Charlemagne** (May-Aug 2004): three bottles all very deep gold color and obviously rapidly oxidizing, but still enjoyable to some degree at this point [Don Cornwell] * **Corton Charlemagne** (06 Oct. 2006): One bottle brown and completely oxidized; second bottle fully mature, not oxidized [Don Cornwell] * **Corton Charlemagne** (Dec 2006): Two bottles completely oxidized; one bottle mature and drinking very well. [Poppy Davis] * **Corton Charlemagne** (8 Mar 2007): Last two bottles were completely oxidized [Don Cornwell] ===== 1998 ===== * **Mercurey Clos des Barraults 1998** (Nov 2002): not oxidized [Jan-Tore Egge] * **Mercurey Clos des Barraults 1998** (Jul 2003): not oxidized [Jan-Tore Egge]