Professional reviews
Jancis Robinson (17)
Cask sample. Amazing this is being poured, considering the price! A tad too cool admittedly. Tingly and rich but it's just a bit too tight to see its real qualities, which are probably there but a bit buried at the moment. Long though!
Vinous (95)
The 2020 Montrachet Grand Cru (Marquis de Laguiche) has a riper bouquet than the Montrachet from Olivier Leflaive Frères. The nose offers candied orange peel, linseed, crushed rock and just a slither of white peaches. It shows fine delineation and becomes quite a patisserie (chestnut Paris Bresse, as a fellow taster astutely observes) with aeration. The palate has a powerful entry. It's a little more exotic in style, with white peach mixed with chamomile, orange pith and a hint of pineapple. The acidity keeps this on its toes and counterbalances the weight and richness on the finish. It needs time for the component parts to meld together. Excellent. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.
Burghound (96)
Here the wood treatment is no longer subtle though it stops short of fighting with the wonderfully broad-ranging nose of lemon confit, jasmine tea, acacia blossom and an abundance of spice elements. There is superb density and almost painful intensity to the palate staining big-bodied flavors that deliver massive persistence on the perfectly balanced finale. This strikingly pretty Montrachet is indisputably constructed for the very long haul, and I would recommend not touching a bottle for at least ten years. In sum, this is a stunning wine of class and grace.
Jasper Morris (95)
A clear fresh colour. The oak lends a little touch of coconut but is not over dominant. The alcohol can be seen very slightly but it is really the massive weight of wine on the palate which stuns, and once again it is kept honest by the superb thread of natural acidity. A very fine finish, though the oak which shows in some whisky lactones needs to subside for perfection.
BOW (9)
