Winemaker Notes
Full-bodied, rich and powerful, Bâtard-Montrachet has intense aromas and flavors of almonds, apple, white flowers and spices, with incredible length. This wine will develop favorably for 10 to 20 years after the vintage.
This rich wine is ideal paired with equally rich appetizers and elegant main courses such as foie gras, lobster and scallops.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Weight and vitality, concentration and elegance make this a very impressive white Burgundy, even though it is still pretty young. Time will undoubtedly amplify all this,because the wine already expands as it powers inexorably across the palate. Huge yet fresh finish. Drinkable now, but best from 2023.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru (Maison Louis Jadot) is promising, bursting with aromas of citrus zest, buttered orchard fruit, toasted bread, fresh mint and white flowers. Full-bodied, rich and concentrated, it's layered and textural, with tangy acids and a saline finish.
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Decanter
Produced from grapes purchased from the Puligny side of the vineyard, gently pressed and vinified in cask (one-third new), and will be aged for 18 months. The aromas are complex, beginning with ripe passionfruit and citrus, augmented by notes of hazelnut and spice from the oak. On the palate there is lots of density, but enough acidity to carry it off well. A balanced, elegant Bâtard.
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Wine Spectator
A ripe style, bordering on tropical fruit flavors, this white exhibits flashes of pineapple and coconut that grace notes of lime and white flowers. Intense and balanced, with a tactile feel on the long finish. Give it some time. Best from 2024
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2019 Domaine Louis Jadot Bâtard-Montrachet is bold and beautiful. TASTING NOTES: This wine comes to the fore with powerful ripe fruit and lavish oaky notes. Give it a few years in the cellar before popping the cork. (Tasted: February 17, 2021, San Francisco, CA)
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.