2008 Batard Montrachet
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Magnum. Dense. Green fruits and marzipan on the nose, very tense and muscular with apparently elevated acidity but awfully youthful. It’s thrashing about like a restless foetus. Get me out of here, it seems to be saying! Still very sleek muscles and just developing. Lots of green on the finish. (JR)
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson MW
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Very ripe but pure and discreet aromas of citrus peel, white flowers, medicinal herbs, clove and nut; a very Puligny-side style of Batard. Then chewy, saline, dry and quite backward, conveying a powerful sappy quality and good cut and verve but hiding its fruit. This extremely backward wine, which was bottled with the Chevalier-Montrachet ten days before my visit, displays fascinating botanical herb notes that reminded me of Benedictine. Finishes with superb building length and energy.
Since 2003. Racked three weeks ago. 90-year-old vines with very small berries. Every year it takes six months to ferment. Very dense and rich on the nose – though the difference between his Grands Crus and simplest wines is not nearly as marked as in many other producers. A certain mealiness. Very brawny and rather strident and positively trumpeting its extra intensity and richness. Very particular. Not as obviously Colin-Morey. A very particular wine. (JR)
About the producer
Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey (known by many as PYCM) is a négociant and domaine that has become one of the most popular white wine producers in Burgundy – with a prolific number of cuvées from the top Grands and Premiers Crus vineyards in the Côte de Beaune.