Variety: Chardonnay
Tasting notes:
Clean pale yellow with hints of green and a nice brilliance. Crisp, ripe and powerful, with toasted bread, fresh almonds and hints of fresh butter. Lots of finesse, elegance, white flowers and some mineral. Very nice, dense and concentrated, powerful with the beautiful complexity of the vintage. Ripe and crisp. Long on the palate, rich and elegant at the time.
Reviews:
This monopoly holding just behind the château regularly produces one of southern Burgundy's best wines and has done it again in 2018. Pale in colour and very elegant, this comes from separate parcels planted between 1929 and 1981 and is a cuvée of 3 different terroirs. Spicy, chalky, refined and complex, it's floral, long and peppery, with effortless concentration and seamlessly integrated 80% new oak.
Here too generous wood stops just short of fighting with the ripe but fresh nose that is composed by softly exotic notes of white peach, floral and mineral reduction. There is evident power and impressive richness to the full-bodied and palate coating big-bodied flavors that deliver excellent length on the sappy and slightly warm finish. This typically ages very well and should age in 2018.