Professional reviews
Winespectator (97)
This is distinctly floral, with peach, lime blossom, citronella and mineral aromas and flavors. Sleek and elegant, offering intensity through the lingering aftertaste of lemon and orchard fruits. Shows terrific length and harmony.
Burghound (96)
A suggestion of the exotic is present on the aromas of citrus confit, white peach, passion fruit and pretty floral nuances. While the larger-scaled flavors possess a bit more size and weight, they're actually slightly finer, though not denser, than those of the BBM while delivering outstanding length on the bone-dry, youthfully austere and decidedly built-to-age finale that exhibits first-rate length. This is a Ramonet Bâtard of relative finesse though to be sure, it does not lack for punch or potential longevity. I quite like this as it's stylish and even classy, which isn't an adjective always applied to Bâtard.
Jasper Morris (97)
Pure white colour, very intense, white flesh, at first almost too backward to assess. Though I was rather impressed by the quality of the various wines from 2021, Ramonet’s Bienvenues-Bâtard showed the extra weight and intensity of 2020. There was no sign of the mentholated quality that I used frequently to find in Ramonet wines, instead just a pure and dense white fruit that grew in the glass, to make this comfortably the group’s preferred wine of the evening. The combined pedigree of vigneron and vintage suggested that it should be.
BOW (8.75)
