Critic ratings
robert_parker
2019
Rating:
93
–93
More muscular than the Bienvenues, the 2019 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru reveals notions of honey, orange oil, fresh pastry, ripe pears and white flowers. Full-bodied, rich and powerful, with lively acids and a ripe core of fruit, it's the archetypical Bâtard in a sunny, concentrated year.
robert_parker
1996
Rating:
93
–93
This bottle of Pernot's 1996 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru is showing immaculately, offering up notes of citrus oil, buttered toast, pear, white flowers, honeycomb and iodine. Medium to full-bodied, layered and incisive, with a racy spine of acidity and chalky grip, it's satiny and impressively concentrated, with a muscular, tightly wound profile.
robert_parker
2020
Rating:
93
–93
The 2020 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru is a rich and muscular wine evocative of orange oil, buttered toast, peach, confit citrus and baking spices. Full-bodied, layered and textural, with lively acids and chalky structuring extract, this has turned out very well and looks likely to equal or surpass the 2017 and 2019 renditions.
robert_parker
2014
Rating:
94
–94
The 2014 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru has a gorgeous bouquet: orange blossom, cold limestone, chalk and a touch of citrus lemon that are all quite intense and well defined. The palate is well balanced with a slightly honeyed opening, leaning slightly on the richer side for the vintage, counterbalanced however by sufficient acidity to maintain tension. This is an excellent Bâtard-Montrachet from Pernot.
robert_parker
2017
Rating:
93
–93
Pernot's 2017 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru derives from two parcels, one located on the border of Puligny and Chassagne and another near the Clos Poirier. Offering up notions of ripe peaches, mandarin, honeycomb and a classy framing of new oak, it's full-bodied, rich and layered with a riper, more textural profile than the Bienvenues, though with a touch less elegance and textural integration. Like the Bienvenues, this will be expressive young, though its blockier construction will merit a couple of years in the cellar.
robert_parker
2011
Rating:
91
–91
The 2011 Batard-Montrachet is weightless and gracious, with lovely delineation in its fruit and excellent balance. In 2011, the Batard is a fairly easygoing, approachable wine with good depth and texture, but less in the way of size. White and yellow stone fruits, pears, flowers, minerals and a touch of spice from the oak are layered into the finish. Like most 2011s, Pernot’s Batard comes across as approachable and medium in weight. It appears best suited to near and mid-term drinking. Anticipated maturity: 2012+.
Pernot bottled all of the 2011s in late June, the earliest I know of in Burgundy, especially for the higher-end appellations. Because of the early harvest, the fermentations were done quickly. The wines were racked into tank in March for fining, where they stayed until they were bottled. This is a very pretty set of 2011s that offers considerable early appeal.
Importer: Louis/Dressner Selections, New York, NY; tel. (212) 334-8191