2014 Etienne Sauzet Bâtard-Montrachet

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 93.6 points

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  3/16/2024 - TWSA wrote: 92 Points

  Nose: pineapple, cheese , hints of gunflint, caramel, white flower, guava, sesame
  Notes: quite full bodied and intense upon opening. Etienne Sauzet is one of the makers that has been slowly changing from the conventional fatty chardonnay style to a relatively lean and modern style in recent vintages, especially after 2010/2011. While this may be a trendy move I certainly enjoyed the Sauzets of yesteryear a little more but I guess this is the reality if Burgundy white. As the wine opens up more it actually becomes more lean and steely with plenty of gunflint. Although this is not the style I prefer but I still think this is every bit as intense and complex as a Batard should be except the fatness and fullness which the reader may or may not like due to personal taste. I think this has plenty more time ahead of it and cellaring further will one day be quite rewarding.
  Drink: 2030+
  Rating: 92

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  4/19/2023 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Initially a bit reductive and lean on the palate, but it opened up with the Batard fatness and grand cru weight after swirling in the glass. It exhibited gun powder, citrus, hazelnuts and lemon peel. It has just entered its drinking window but it surely will develop more layers with age.

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  9/10/2021 - Nanda wrote: 93 Points

  Acker Auction BYO (Craft NYC): In an early peak and pleasure-filled zone. Lots of match-stick and orchard fruit. Good raw power but made fresh and refined with well integrated acidity. Still a bit young, but quite satisfying.

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  9/10/2021 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points

  Acker's COVID-Vaccinated BYO Dinner and Auction Simulcast (Craft - New York NY): Small glass, brief note. Apple and pear with floral start, spice flourishes in the middle. Very concentrated Grand Cru density with a brightly textured finish. Very good now.

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  8/20/2018 - jrh82 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Very good wine indeed. Not a broad or powerful wine which you might have expected from Sauzet and Batard. Instead there were, much like Bienvenues Batard Montrachet from same producer and vintage, no particular characteristics which stood out. Rather an steady winemaking resulting in a very harmonious and elegant version of Batard. This was probably the wine most resembling Dom. Leflaive Pucelles '14 with regards to minerality, acidity and balance albeit on a smaller scale. Could be the 2014 vintage coming through on wines? More yellow than green apple on this wine which differentiates the two.
  
  In a different setting I believe this wine would have shone better and one would have better appreciated how elegantly this wine was made. However the crazy minerality and acidity in the Pucelles '14 and the opulent and obvious fruit of the Girardin Chevalier Montrachet '12 made this wine appear more neutral than it normally would have done.
  
  Plenty of upside.

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