Community Tasting Notes 11

• wineappellation Likes this wine: 95 points

  February 22, 2017 - Pale gold, lots of legs. Aroma of dried white flower, citrus, apricot, hazelnut, vanilla, smoky. On palate flavour of lemonade, pineapple, ginger, marizpan is noted. Mouth watering acidity back by a full body, concentrated palate and a long layered finish. At a perfect time now.

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• pmonge wrote: 94 points

  August 15, 2011 - Ferragosto in montagna: Excellent freshness due to razor-like acidity. Indeed, Grand Cru intensity. Powerful, elegant, long, and you could drink a lot without being bored. Consensus was that this was the best white wine of the event.

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• drwine2001 wrote:

  January 14, 2011 - In the name of science, my dear friend generously broke out this bottle since he felt that a bottle we had tasted earlier in the week from a different source was not completely representative of what this wine could be. He was right. This bottle, obtained directly from the caveau in Chassagne Montrachet in 2001, was brighter, fresher, and full of citrus and chalk that the earlier example did not show. Very close in color, weight, and aromatics to the Criots Batard that we drank that night. Amazing how much more exciting this was with a juxtaposition of elegance and expansive power in the mouth. Only after being open for an hour and a half did it show any of the toasty caramel that the other bottle of this had from the get go. Provenance counts.

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• wickedwax wrote:

  January 12, 2011 - Quite different than the Criots. Everything about the Batard seems more intense, but at the cost of elegance and finesse. The aromas of Batard jump out at you with a little more force than the Criots. It also shows lemon, but in this case, it's more like lemon custard with a honeyed richness. Also has strong minerality and a little bit of white flowers. It's full-bodied and intensely concentrated on the palate showing that lemon custard note and yellow stone fruit with a hint of baking spices. Less acid than the Criots, but enough from keeping it from being too top-heavy; has even more length than the Criots (but it also shows just the faintest hint of heat on the finish). It's a stylistic choice, the Criots is amazing in its elegance and purity and the Batard is amazing in its sheer power and intensity.

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• darvid wrote:

  January 12, 2011 - Moderate gold-yellow. Mild caramel aromas and flavors say that this is tiring. Still has the flowers, minerals, body, and acid I recall from a great bottle about 18 months ago, but blunted by age - apparently provenance rather than premox. Freshened up somewhat after being open for an hour or so.
  While failing to match my praise of this wine in an 8/09 note, this bottle was also weak by comparison to a 2000 F-G Criots served alongside it (brought directly from the domaine on release).

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2000
• Type White
• Producer Domaine Fontaine-Gagnard
• Varietal Chardonnay
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Beaune
• Appellation Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru

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