Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A dense white with lots of character, offering dried-apple, salt and straw aromas. It’s full-bodied with bright hints of cooked apples, light vanilla and nougat. Really complex and really excellent for the appellation. Drinkable now, but better in two or three years.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2018 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Morgeot Clos de la Chapelle (Domaine du Duc de Magenta) is showing well, opening in the glass with notes of crisp green orchard fruit, dried white flowers, fresh pastry and blanched almonds. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, structured and tangy, with lively acids and good dry extract.
Range : (92-94)
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Jasper Morris
Fresh pale primrose, some ripeness including a touch of banana but very appealing. Becomes slightly more reductive. High acidity, some greengage and grapefruit. I think there may be a lot more to come, as the finish develops greater energy.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The Louis Jadot Domaine Duc de Magenta Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru Morgoet Clos de la Chapelle has always been a top-performer in this winery's portfolio. The 2018 vintage is an excellent wine. TASTING NOTES: This a lovely example of Morgeot. Its aromas and flavors of tart/sweet apple and its notes of minerality should pair it well with shellfish in decadent cream sauces. (Tasted: February 3, 2020, 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 Côte de Beaune village of Burgundy most famous for its beautifully textured and powerful whites, Chassagne-Montrachet reaches farthest south in the Côte d’Or, save for the village of Santenay. It has three Grands Crus vineyards: Le Montrachet, Bâtard-Montrachet and Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet. Le Montrachet and Bâtard-Montrachet overlap with and are (confusingly) shared with the village of Puligny-Montrachet. But Chassagne-Montrachet bears sole ownership of the Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru.
The beauty doesn’t stop there as the village has a great many outstanding Premiers Crus wines and village level wines. Most famous Premiers Crus vineyards include Les Chenevottes, Clos de la Maltroie, En Cailleret and Les Ruchottes. Also, village level wines offer many lovely examples of what Chassagne-Montrachet has to offer, but at more approachable price points and perhaps less demand of waiting.
The best sites in Chassagne-Montrachet have complex soils of sedimentary rock and limestone (with less marl). Whites, which are by law composed of 100% Chardonnay (as in all classified white Burgundy from Côte d’Or), have steely power, bright and concentrated citrus, stone or tropical fruit characteristics and attractive textures ranging from plush to tactile, grippy and mineral-driven.
There is some fine Pinot Noir produced from the village. These wines tend to be high-toned and earthy, with wild herb aromas and suave tannins.