Winemaker Notes
Batard Montrachet is the perfect partner for elegant dining: foie gras, appetizers, lobsters, scallops.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Jadot’s 2008 Batard-Montrachet is quite a bit different from the 2009 and 2010. Honey, hazelnuts, butter, mint, spices and mature apricots are all woven together in the glass. Quite frankly, I am surprised by how forward and evolved the 2008 is today. This is considerably more advanced than I expect from a grand cru white in 2008. I would not wait too long on the 2008 Batard.
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 classic source of exceptional Chardonnay as well as Pinot Noir, the Côte de Beaune makes up the southern half of the Côte d’Or. Its principal wine-producing villages are Pernand-Vergelesses, Aloxe-Corton, Beaune, Pommard, Volnay, Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet and Chassagne-Montrachet.
The area is named for its own important town of Beaune, which is essentially the center of the Burgundy wine business and where many negociants center their work. Hospices de Beaune, the annual wine auction, is based here as well.