Winemaker Notes
Pale golden yellow. The bouquet is intense, fresh and extremely fine. Notes of Vanilla, white fruits (peach and apricot) as well as lime. On the palate, the wine is rich and shows white fruits and flowers. Superb complexity and persistence. Crisp and round at the same time.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
On the nose of this wine, a hint of greengage flirts from a stony base. The palate with its citric concentration of zest and freshness also lets that stone fruit flicker. Cool freshness offers balance in this powerful, concentrated wine. Best After 2022
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Jasper Morris
Attractive pale yellow. Quite a backward nose, with just a little waxiness from the oak. Fair concentration of fruit, though oak is more to the fore just at the moment. Starts to build though as the fruit wins ground, and now the tension begins to appear.
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Wine Spectator
A lean, racy style, showing lemon, vanilla and toasted brioche flavors. More angular than its peers, at least for now, with subtle length echoing lemon and oak spice. Best from 2023 through 2033.
One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
A source of some of the finest, juicy, silky and elegantly floral Chardonnay in the Côte de Beaune, Puligny-Montrachet lies just to the north of Chassagne-Montrachet, a village with which it shares two of its Grands Crus vineyards: Le Montrachet itself and Bâtard-Montrachet. Its other two, which it owns in their entirety, are Chevalier-Montrachet and Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet. And still, some of the finest white Burgundy wines come from the prized Premiers Crus vineyards of Puligny-Montrachet. To name a few, Les Pucelles, Le Clavoillon, Les Perrières, Les Referts and Les Combettes, as well as the rest, lie northeast and up slope from the Grands Crus.
Farther to the southeast are village level whites and the hamlet of Blagny where Pinot Noir grows best and has achieved Premier Cru status.