Bâtard-Montrachet, Grand Cru, 2024
More intensely salty than the Bienvenues, and a touch more savoury and mineral too. Complex notes of earth and minerality give this a more backward feel, with clearly much more in reserve than the Bienvenues. Powerful, complex, deep, sonorous Grand Cru. Bass to the Bienvenues treble.
critic reviews
The 2024 Batard-Montrachet Grand Cru is richer and toastier than the Bienvenues, offering up notes of honeyed pear, buttered toast and white flowers, followed by a full-bodied, satiny and seamless palate with a glossier attack and more pronounced structuring dry extract that asserts itself on the delicately mordant finish.
The 2024 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru is more primal on the nose compared to the Bienvenue, beguiling leesy scents emerging, a little more presence by comparison whilst maintaining delineation. The palate is taut and fresh, plenty of substance, quite vibrant and tensile with more attack and nervosité towards the finish. This is up there with the superb 2023 and the two will vie for supremacy in future years. Just an outstanding Bâtard-Montrachet.