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Bouchard Pere & Fils, Chevalier Montrachet Grand Cru 2020
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Reviewed by: William Kelley
The 2020 Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru opens in the glass with notes of citrus oil, musky peach, tangerine, nutmeg and buttered popcorn. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and incisive, it's chiseled and penetrating, with a tightly wound core of fruit and a racy spine of acidity. As readers will remember, this bottling hails from the three terraces on the hillside above Bouchard's La Cabotte, their bottling from the latter—which abuts Montrachet itself—being more muscular and powerful, whereas this cuvée is finer-boned and more ethereal.
Reviewed by: Neal Martin
The 2020 Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru offers vivid scents: pine nuts, hazelnut, a touch of lanolin and plenty of citrus fruit that burst from the glass. The palate is very well balanced with fine poised, quite bright and energetic with a judicous touch of spice towards the finish. This is very promising.
Reviewed by: Neal Martin
The 2020 Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru is an outstanding wine. Compared to Bruno Colin, it offers more mineralité and terroir expression on the nose. Very focused with palpable energy, this is wonderful. The palate is beautifully balanced with pure white stone fruit, a killer line of acidity and stunning sapidity on the finish. So much energy is coiled up in this wine, and this will ensure that it ages in bottle. Proper. Grand. Cru. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.
Reviewed by: James Suckling
This chardonnay masterpiece is currently like a fully wound Breguet watch, but the extremely subtle nose of citrus, wild herbs and flowers is already breathtaking. Mind-blowing concentration, purity and precision on the generous but by no means massive palate. The really extraordinary thing is the intense crushed-stone minerality that's married to sensual creaminess on the mid-palate, then asserts itself ever more singularly at the finish, until it's completely overwhelming. From 2.33 hecatres of vineyards on all four terraces of this famous site. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.
