Winemaker Notes
Puligny Montrachet and Chassagne Montrachet are at the center of the four villages comprising the part of the Côte de Beaune region known as the "Côte des Blancs" (Meursault, Blagny, Chassagne and Puligny). This area received this name for the quality and royalty of its white wines. Bâtard-Montrachet is located at the point where villages of Puligny Montrachet and Chassagne Montrachet converge. It borders the Bienvenues Bâtard Montrachet vineyard and is right below the Montrachet’s one. It is exposed to the sun from the east, and sits on a terroir composed of chalky soil. It is also the largest of the five Grands Crus.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This wine is opulent while also structured. Rich fruits are balanced by the tight texture and power of the delicious white fruits. The wine offers long-term aging as the fruits and the texture come together. Drink this wine from 2024. Kobrand. Cellar Selection
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: Ultra, ultra, ultra…this is what I think when I get the chance to taste a Bâtard-Montrachet. The 2017 vintage is magnificent. TASTING NOTES: This wine has it all—The grandeur of this grape variety is on display. Its aromas and flavors of bold, ripe apples and peaches, creamy oak, and everything in unison. Pair it with Coq Au Vin. (Tasted: January 22, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
There are eight barrels of the excellent 2017 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru (Maison Louis Jadot), an impressive wine that unfurls in the glass with aromas of crisp yellow orchard fruit, pear, pastry cream and honeycomb. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, deep and satiny, with more concentration and cut than this year's Bienvenues, with an elegant sense of completeness and a long, lively finish. This will be well worth seeking out.
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Wine Spectator
A broad, creamy style, with bright, balancing acidity. The fluid profile is woven with peach, lime blossom, lemon and baking spice flavors. Remains fresh and mouthwatering on the long, spice-tinged finish. Best from 2022 through 2030.
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.