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.
Blend: 100% Chardonnay
Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
This has not fallen clear after a recent lees stirring. Jadot stir their Grands Crus twice after the fermentations, once each in summer and autumn. There is significant weight as you would expect, almost a monolithic block, a little citrus, both lemon and lime. Impeccable length. This requires significantly more ageing but should join its fellows on the podium. Barrel Sample: 95-98
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Vinous
The 2022 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru, which comes from the Puligny side, has a more concentrated nose than the Bienvenue: quite expressive apple blossom and linden scents, a touch of pressed white flower and crushed limestone. The palate is well-balanced with a little more substance than the Bienvenue, more grip, presence and a longer tail on the finish. This should mature beautifully in bottle.
Barrel Sample: 94-96 -
Wine Spectator
Rich and creamy, this white exudes peach, hazelnut, citronella and crushed stone aromas and flavors. Keeps coming at you in waves, showing harmony and a well-integrated structure. The extended aftertaste combines notes of baking spices and pastry.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Aromas of ripe pear, peach, mint, hazelnuts and buttered toast introduce the 2022 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru (Maison Louis Jadot), a full-bodied, rich and layered wine that's broad and satiny, with a seamless, giving profile and an expansive finish.
Barrel Sample: 92-94
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.