2008 Domaine Jean-Marc Pillot Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Chenevottes

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  12/21/2021 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Old vines. Deep yellow with golden edges the bouquet offers wet chalk, crushed rocks with ripe nectarine, apricot, apricot blossom and peach melba. Wonderful complexity on the nose as other aromas come and go: baked apple, hazelnut and creme fraiche (reminds me of the old ski yoghurt).
  The entry is rich and bursting with ripe, sweet orchard and stone fruits: slivers of Gala apple, yellow peach and nectarine that are balanced by an incisive blade of mineral-edged acidity. Classic high quality Chassagne here, the freshness and mineral keep the broad fruit filling upright and precise. Complex the wine shows no almond paste edges suggesting development (an issue recently) but rather an edge of spicy, integrated oak and that creamy underbelly. A long, persistent finish this is a fabulous wine with an aftertaste of baked apple tart!
  Excellent on a warm day!

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  8/9/2020 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Deep lemon colour. Forward nose with lemon curd, lemon meringue pie towards lemon cream biscuits along with slivered almonds, with a river stone, white chalk note. The palate has more richness than expected with good concentration of flavour (old vines?) and a racy almost tart/tangy acidity—Linear in approach and long finish. The fruit is lemon and clementine peel, kumquat, a streak of honey, then that lemon meringue pie of the nose. Very focused albeit showing some evolution

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  8/25/2016 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Mid+ yellow
  Juicy, lemon rind, crushed rock minerals, chalk dust, yellow stone fruits and yellow Golden Delicious apples on the nose.
  Apple skin texture accentuated with lively rather than crisp acidity on the attack. This morphs quickly to a much more expressive, fleshier wine with excellent concentration. Plenty of sweet nectarine and peach, lemon oil and river stones is given further richness from leesy oat flakes and soft oaky lactones.
  A great breadth of flavours but not so much depth; the length is reasonably long. As the wine finishes, a lemon infusion of lemon curd and lemon oil alongside a stony-mineral quality make it very charming.

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  12/23/2015 - englishman's claret wrote: 92 Points

  Really delicious; an elegant nose full of lemon, cream, and mineral. Falls just a bit short on complexity for a top 1er but still very good. Upright; good energy and drive to keep the Chassagne fat from being unwieldy.

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  4/13/2015 - PC73 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Lovely wine. Real balance. More stony, minerally side of a Chassagne to my taste (which I like). Favorourite of the whites.

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