Wine Reviews

The 2024 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru is more backward and closed than the Bienvenues yet this sings of Bâtard, a bit surly but you know it will loosen up in the end. The palate is fresh and crisp on the entry. There is just a touch of reduction but it feels tensile from start to finish. It is a little spicier on the finish with a tang of tangerine and stem ginger on the aftertaste. Excellent.

An expressive and attractively fresh nose freely offers up intricately layered aromas of spiced apple, poached pear, citrus confit and a whiff of exotic jasmine tea. The big-bodied, intense and imposingly powerful flavors drench the palate in dry extract that also buffers the firm acid spine shaping the compact, powerful and impeccably well-balanced finish.

Pure, airy and wafting aromas of white flowers, citrus rind include both lemon and tangerine plus wisps of pear, passion fruit and pretty spice nuances trimmed in just enough wood to merit mentioning. Somewhat surprisingly, the mouthfeel of the solidly constituted flavors is relatively fine with good power that slowly builds from the mid-palate to the sleekly muscular finish. This understated and lovely effort is very promising.

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.