Louis Jadot Chevalier Montrachet Les Demoiselles Grand Cru 2014
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Serve with turbot, monkfish, scallops, lobster, white truffle pasta and delicate meats such as braised veal and poultry.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2014 Chevalier Montrachet les Demoiselles Grand Cru has a very precise, mineral-rich bouquet with cold granite and flinty scents, hints of white peach and almond just in the background. This is very classy. The palate is very poised and intense, just a faint touch of bitter lemon imparting tension from start to finish with healthy salinity on the long, long finish. This is surely Jadot's best white in 2014? It is magnificent. Range: 95-97
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Plenty of ground coffee, toast and vanilla aromas announce this white, while flavors of peach, lemon and apple follow through. Young and a little disjointed, but all the parts are there. Finishes long and satisfying. Best from 2019 through 2032.
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Discreet appley aromas with some tropical fruit and an oaky sheen. Good attack – firm, virile and very concentrated – with minerality and ample sweetness. Shows grip, tension and a racy, pungent finish. Very long.
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This 1.11-acre parcel has been part of the Jadot domaine since 1913, when Louis Jean Baptiste Jadot bought back the piece of land his grandfather had originally purchased in 1845. Frédéric Barnier and his team sustain a community of old vines on the site, last replanted in 1956. The 2014 defines the appellation, a wine that’s grand and racy, lean and aristocratic. Its succulent pear-like flavor density keeps yielding a gentle complexity with remarkable staying power—nutmeg, orange, vanilla, lemon and mineral salts combine in effortless concentration and lasting savor. Youthfully impacted, this should begin to show its best ten years from the vintage.
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