2017 Chevalier Montrachet
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The 2017 Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru is showing brilliantly, soaring from the glass with a lovely bouquet of lemon oil, white flowers, crushed chalk, orange zest, green apple and blanched almonds. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, deep and multidimensional, with an incisive spine of acidity, superb tension and back-end grip and a long, mineral finish. This is a magical Chevalier that realizes all the promise it hinted at in barrel.
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Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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In barrel. He barters juice with another producer to get this. 2010 was the first vintage. Intoxicating richness before you have even put this in your mouth. Just a hint of sweet oak spice but mostly this is the fruit intensity. Chewy, chewy richness but all rounded and full in the mouth. Luscious fruit all tied up in sharply designed framework. Deep, powerful, but all in harmony for a long life thanks to the tingling energy and freshness on the finish. (JH)
(the Moreaus have two 350-liter barrels of this wine, one of them new): Bright, light yellow. Classic high-pitched Chevalier-Montrachet aromas of lemon, lime, pear, white peach, lavender and white pepper. Densely packed but weightless, offering sharp definition and outstanding class to its flavors of lemon zest, crushed stone and mineral salts. This very dry, intense wine is quite tight but not hard, and its subtly mounting salty finish is hard to scrape off the palate. Alexandre Moreau will wait until at least next March to bottle this beauty.