critic reviews
The 2020 Chablis Montée de Tonnerre 1er Cru, which is aged 25% in new French oak, has a generous, quite seductive nose with peach skin, hints of white chocolate and lemon verbena, perhaps just lacking some mineralité. The palate offers compelling balance and acidity. Peardrop and light clementine notes, a punter-friendly Chablis that leans a little too close to the New World for my liking. What it lacks in typicité it compensates with seductive charm. Not a one for purists, but a decent drop of Chardonnay for sure. Tasted blind at the BIVB tasting in Chablis.
Aromas of pear, peach, orange oil, white flowers, freshly baked bread and beeswax introduce the 2020 Chablis 1er Cru Montee de Tonnerre, a medium to full-bodied, rich and concentrated wine that's layered and fragrant, with a fleshy core of fruit, fine tension and a long, saline finish. This is a young Montee de Tonnerre that really resembles a baby Clos this year.