While Burgundy is a very old, historic area, not all is what it seems regarding its wines and appellations. The Montrachet area - with Montrachet, Chevalier-Montrachet, Bâtard-Montrachet, and the more recent Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet and Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet - was actually formalized in …
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Visit Joseph Drouhin – tasting the white 2017s from cask
Travelling Burgundy - I do taste a lot of good wines and meet a lot of talented and great people ... from Meurilly on the Côte to the outskirts Beaune, from a diminutive cellars to the Drouhin facilities, from Nicolas Faure to Veronique Drouhin. Different worlds one could say ... yet in the end …
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Bouchard Pere et Fils, Montrachet 2016
Lets face it - 2016 is both a great and a terrible year for the Montrachet hill. On the Chassagne side the frost was merciless and most of the havest was destroyed in the April frost, while the Puligny side produced at least some Montrachet, and while the yields were lower - Bouchard Pere et Fils …
Bouchard Pere et Fils, Montrachet 2014
The Third time I taste the Montrachet 2014 from Bouchard and it's still a tremendous wine - and somehow it's slightly difficult to understand the diverging opinions about this wine. It's intense and quite rich currently, lovely balance and intensity but need some cellaring to re-focus and develop …
Remoissenet, Montrachet 1998
The 1998 Remoissenet Montrachet is now fully mature in my view. In the nose dark yellow fruit .. pineapple, white peach, hazelnuts - with a foundation of stony minerality. The warmer and sweeter notes like acacia and fique with hints of quince becomes more intense with air and as the temperature …