June 2024
MARC MOREY
Chassagne-Montrachet 1er cru Les Chenevottes 2022
- 91 points -
(from a .80 ha holding in Les Bondues). This is the first wine to display any significant reduction and here it’s enough to push the underlying fruit to the background. By contrast there is both good freshness and verve suffusing the caressing and seductive medium-bodied flavors that brim with sappy dry extract before culminating in a sappy bitter citrus-tinged finale. This generously proportioned effort has the legs to repay mid-term keeping up to a decade yet is sufficiently pliant to be approachable young if desired.
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