Bouchard Père & Fils Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru 2013 White

Curated Bouchard Père & Fils with provenance from Burgdy.

The Bouchard Père & Fils Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru is a chardonnay masterpiece according to James Suckling who has also given it the maximum score of 100/100 points. The Bouchard Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru has an extremely subtle nose of citrus, wild herbs, and flowers and is breathtaking. Stunning concentration, purity, and precision on the generous but by no means massive palate. What makes this wine and this vintage especially special is the intense minerality of crushed stone that accompanies pleasant creaminess in the middle of the mouth and then becomes more and more dominant in the aftertaste until it blows you away. The chardonnay grapes come from a 2.33 hectare vineyard. From organically grown grapes. This chardonnay masterpiece is currently like a fully wound Breguet watch, but the extremely subtle nose of citrus, wild herbs and flowers is already breathtaking. Mind-blowing concentration, purity and precision on the generous but by no means massive palate. The really extraordinary thing is the intense crushed-stone minerality that’s married to sensual creaminess on the mid-palate, then asserts itself ever more singularly at the finish, until it’s completely overwhelming. From 2.33 hecatres of vineyards on all four terraces of this famous site. From organically grown grapes. The Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru opens in the glass with notes of citrus oil, musky peach, tangerine, nutmeg and buttered popcorn. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and incisive, it’s chiseled and penetrating, with a tightly wound core of fruit and a racy spine of acidity. As readers will remember, this bottling hails from the three terraces on the hillside above Bouchard’s La Cabotte, their bottling from the latter which abuts Montrachet itself -being more muscular and powerful, whereas this cuvee is finer-boned and more ethereal.