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Bouchard Pere & Fils, Chevalier Montrachet Grand Cru 2022
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Reviewed by: William Kelley
The 2022 Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru is unusually textural and muscular for this bottling, delivering aromas of pear, yellow orchard fruit, buttery pastry, white flowers and freshly baked bread, followed by a medium to full-bodied, deep and layered palate that's rich and unctuous, with terrific depth at the core and a long, resonant finish.
Reviewed by: Neal Martin
The 2022 Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru is often one of Bouchard Père's strongest cards. It delivers a beautifully defined bouquet with crushed limestone and yellow fruit shimmering with tension. The palate is medium-bodied with a fine bead of acidity, taut and fresh with a linear, sapid finish. Sophisticated and long-term.
Reviewed by: Stuart Pigott
Another breathtaking masterpiece from this Grand Cru. It's rather easy to describe the front palate with its white flowers, Amalfi lemon, white peach and fresh pineapple character, but then you depart on a long, dangerous and exciting journey that takes you up mountains, through rivers and across vast meadows. The wine’s sense of space and scale must be experienced to be believed. Then some last steps - thousands of steps - along a stony path... yet the final impression is light and delicate. From 2.3 hectares of vineyards on all four terraces of this legendary site.
Reviewed by: Stuart Pigott
They say that first impressions are the most important, and my first impression of this is that it's the white burgundy of my dreams. Astonishing Amalfi-lemon, pineapple and wildflower aromas with touches of flint and wet stones on the nose. Then comes the overwhelming minerality on the extremely concentrated, medium- to full-bodied palate. It is not only of mind-blowing intensity, but it just does not want to stop. The fruit is all there, but is right to the back of the stage upon which the stone figure of the heroine stands. And yet all of this is is so precise and finely nuanced. From a 2.33 hectare parcel in this legendary site. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.
