Critic ratings
robert_parker
2017
Rating:
90
–90
This climat is typically one of the more incisive wines in the Ramonet range, but the 2017 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Vergers is in fact unusually rich. Offering up notes of citrus oil, ripe peaches, honeycomb and almond paste, it's medium to full-bodied, broad and textural, with lively acids but considerable flesh on its structural bones.
robert_parker
1996
Rating:
93
–93
The pristine bottle of Ramonet's 1996 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Vergers was showing brilliantly, unwinding in the glass with a complex bouquet of Meyer lemon, oatmeal, crisp orchard fruit and honeycomb that's still strikingly youthful. Green-gold in hue, the wine is medium to full-bodied, satiny and incisive, with the racy spine of acidity that characterizes the vintage on full display, but without any of the hints of premature senility that also bedevils this year. Long, tensile and still youthfully reserved, this is a 1996 that's aging at a glacial pace; while it may always remain comparatively compact in style, each bottle I drink makes me less and less inclined to bet against it.
robert_parker
1995
Rating:
94
–94
From half-bottle, Ramonet's 1995 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Vergers is showing brilliantly, wafting from the glass with aromas of crisp Anjou pear, warm bread, citrus oil and iodine. Medium to full-bodied, deep and layered, it's a concentrated, multidimensional wine with real volume at the core and an appreciable presence of structuring dry extract.
robert_parker
2015
Rating:
92
–92
The 2015 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Vergers reveals a beautifully defined bouquet of citrus oil, lime, toasted nuts and fresh mint—the prelude to a medium-full, glossy wine with tensile acids, excellent depth and dimension and a long, precise finish. The Vergers often has one of the cooler profiles of the Ramonet's Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Crus, and that characteristic has served it well in the warm 2015 vintage.
robert_parker
2014
Rating:
93
–93
The 2014 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Vergers reveals a complex bouquet of pear, white peach, hazelnut and wet stones. On the palate, the wine is taut and precise, with lovely energy and sap underpinning its glossy, supple attack. This was tasted side by side with the 2015 rendition, and the contrast was interesting: while Ramonet's higher appellation 2015s have nice energy and freshness, the wines lead with their generous textures; with the 2014s, the order of appearance is reversed.
robert_parker
2012
Rating:
92
–92
Ramonet's 2012 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Vergers is one of the highlights of their range in what is a rather open-knit vintage for the domaine, the tension of the site tempering the year's tendency to corpulence. An expressive and quite dramatic nose of buttery orchard fruit, pastry cream and a framing of smoky new oak leads into a full-bodied, penetrating and glossily textural wine with bright acids and quite an open, generous core of fruit. This is drinking very well now, and it's probably not a vintage to cellar for the long haul.
robert_parker
2001
Rating:
87
–87
Ramonet’s 2001 Chassagne-Montrachet Les Vergers impresses the taster with its excellent to outstanding scents and attack, it reveals a short, compressed finish. Aromatically, it displays talcum powder-laced minerals that lead to a lush, satin-textured attack with perfumed stone flavors. Drink it over the next 4 years.
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