Domaine de Montille Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru 2020
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Jasper
Morris
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Considered one of the ultimate references of Chardonnay in the world, along with Montrachet and Batard-Montrachet. Spicy, rich and complex with a beautiful balance of plumpness and energetic tension. Will begin to generously blossom in five to seven years.
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Jasper Morris
Slightly fuller lemon yellow, very intense bouquet with lots of class. There are some yellower notes within the fruit but essentially this is still classical Chevalier with its limestone bench character. The persistence is absolutely grand cru. This will make a beautiful bottle.
Barrel Sample: 95-98
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.