Chassagne-Montrachet, Les Caillerets, 1er Cru, 2017
Profound and rich but with loads of energy. Fleshy, characterful but very driven notes of citrus rind and mineral with butter and earth touches adding dimension. Textured, nutty and savoury but showing great vitality too. Complex, beautifully balanced with a bit of bite and crunch giving the ripe fruit some structure. Situated at the southern end of the “en Caillerets” sector, Caroline’s vines are planted on a steep slope of shallow, pebbly soils with a fine south-east exposure. The most precise and intense of Caroline Lestimée’s Chassagnes from her oldest vines (over 60 years-old.)
critic reviews
The 2017 Chassagne-Montrachet Les Caillerets 1er Cru has the richest nose of the five examples served blind from this climat, featuring pineapple, orange zest, touches of mango and later honeysuckle and chamomile, all very attractive and perfumed. The palate is well balanced with good density and weight, offering mango, passion fruit and stem ginger notes. Powerful, weighty and concentrated; what it lacks in subtlety is compensated by flavor. This will be difficult to resist in its youth, but I believe the terroir will percolate through with time. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting in Savigny-lès-Beaune.