2017 Bouchard Père et Fils Chevalier-Montrachet Domaine

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  3/9/2024 - shifter wrote:

  Grand Cru White Burgundy Fest: Very focused and precise. Very good wine in a great vintage.

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  4/27/2023 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  Under corvin, and chalky but has fallen off just a touch.

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  2/9/2023 - shifter Likes this wine: 95 Points

  20th Engagea-half-aversary: Decanted 1 hour, back in bottle for 2 hours. Nose wasn't showing a ton, but had a cleanness with a great frame. Palate was in balance, deep white fruit and some vanillin notes. Continued to develop throughout the evening and was best about 6 hours after opening. Unfolded in the glass with layers and layers of white fruit and minerality. This is head and shoulders a different wine from 2 years ago, but still has a long way to go and tons of upside to hold.

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  1/6/2023 - El_Dougo Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Magnificent Montrachet (Hong Kong): Chevalier-Montrachet is highest altitude slope (260-300m) of the SE-facing Montrachet communes, resulting in a cool micro-climate and elegant, delicate wines. 7.59 hectares of varied soils including limestone, marl, and stones. Composed of three Linux-dits: Chevalier-Montrachet, Les Demoiselles and Le Cailleret.
  
  Domaine Bouchard is one of the largest land owners of Chevalier-Montrachet with 2.3 hectares. History dated back to 1731. Based in Beaune. Now is the 9th generation, currently owns 130 hectares in total including 74 Premier Cru vineyards and 12 Grand Cru vineyards. Owned by Champagne Henriot and subsequently merged with Artémis Domaines.
  
  Grapes harvested by hand, manual sorting, 2 phases of pressing with breaks in between! 12-13 months on oak, 15% new.
  
  Pale to medium in glass. Nose bursting of blossom, tropical banana, and mango. Butter and later evolved to citrus. Later still evolved to take on toast. So much going on here, although it did seem to run out of energy a bit after 2 hrs. That said, it could have kept evolving just couldn’t keep it in the glass long enough to find out.
  
  Palate dry, high acidity (tho not as high as Chablis) attributed to altitude, tight med body. Supper elegant! Plenty of aging left as little if any tertiary have developed yet.
  
  One of the leading contenders for WOTN, although the nose seemed to fade by voting time.

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  3/24/2021 - shifter Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Lunch at Le Bil (Le Bilboquet): Pop and pour. Nose is screaming right out of the bottle. Creamy mouthfeel with a good balance of acidity. This bottle had slightly darker than expected with some advanced secondary notes you wouldn't expect at this age.

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