2013 Domaine Fontaine-Gagnard Bâtard-Montrachet

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 93 points

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  6/1/2023 - _water.into.wine_ Likes this wine: 92 Points

  A slightly golden hue but zero signs of pre mox here. The nose was quite subdued upon opening but this just got better and better with air and also as it got to room temperature. With time, lots of lovely almonds and honey. A big palate and fills the mouth. A great amount of acidity for a 2013. If I was to open another bottle tomorrow I would let it air. I was pleased with this one.

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  10/29/2022 - Argrath wrote: 92 Points

  (Blind tasting)
  Deep, yellow-orange color (warning sign!)
  Not premoxed, but too advanced for its age...
  Mature nose with pear and apricot compot. Modelling clay and vanilla. Gently oaky. Almost honey and some hints of wet stone.
  Fullish, mature palate that is a bit too advanced. Fat and spicy. Licorice, apricot compot, cinnamon and pine apple. Too four-square, but concentration is there in spades.
  Our tasting group don't buy any more Grand Cru from Fontaine-Gagnard, that's too risky. Their 1er Cru's we buy on release and drink up immediately. Font-Gagn are simply too high on the Premox Risk Scale.

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  4/19/2021 - Xavier94 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Full-bodied and immediate aromas and flavors but showing some reductive funk that seems less apparent with warmth and air time. Lemon custard, wet green herbs, minty spearmint, fern with Smokey, flinty kind of minerality and honeyed flowers. A bit shrill even and underdeveloped but this does show tons of intensity. 94.

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  4/19/2021 - jmoore431 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Tasted blind: intense nose of hi-toned citrus, reductive gunflint notes and moss; good acidity and dry extract but oddly seemed to be holding something back; probably in an awkward phase, will likely benefit from a few more years aging.

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  1/17/2021 - Racer117 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This poured out a reassuringly light gold color. This needed some time to peak. When it did, it was a delicate and elegant wine. Shy nose of hazelnut, citrus, orange rind; Light to med. body with moderate acidity and flavors of hazelnut, ginger, bitter citrus, and prominent minerality. I paired this with lobster tails but I think this wine would be better off on its own or with something very light.

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