1990 Louis Jadot Bâtard-Montrachet

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  3/9/2017 - KeithAkers wrote: 94 Points

  Nose: The nose is immensely deep and layered that fills the glass with red apples, creams, custard, oils, roasted nuts, brioche, peached pears, and some smoke notes.
  
  Taste: Full bodied with medium+ acidity. The acidity is fresh and balanced with the feel showing loads of depth and class with red apples, custard, oils, roasted nuts, brioche, and poached pears.
  
  Overall: This is a wonderful wine. It is such a treat to try a white burg that precedes the premox era, and this shows off what White Burgundy can be when one doesn't have to worry about oxidation.

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  3/9/2017 - salil wrote: 94 Points

  Adrian continues to encourage my descent into white Burgundy hell. It's hard to argue with a bottle like this, which shows everything I want in older white Burg - lots of lavish buttered popcorn and vanilla creamy goodness around a core of ripe fruit, with the oak, fruit, and moderate acidity perfectly balanced on a rich, powerful frame. This is fantastic, but makes me even sadder about the premox situation at Jadot right now, given what those bottles *could* be.

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  3/9/2017 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  Dinner at 90 Miles (Chicago, IL): This is probably the best bottle of the three that I bought. The nose on this is huge and opulent, as good grand cru Burgundy ought to be. Lots of fruit here and a real surprising freshness that belies the age on this wine. With some air, this actually got a bit more popcorny and buttery. There's a little bit of sweetness from the fruit, and the acidity is a bit on the low side, but it's still present. Tons of oak -- delicious!

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  7/6/2016 - acyso wrote: 88 Points

  White Burgundy Dinner at Nico (Chicago, IL): This bottle wasn't as good as my recollection of my first bottle. In fact, this one showed a little bit of advancement, which, paradoxically retreated with a moderate bit of air, before reemerging at the end of the evening. As I quipped, I don't want to drink any Bâtard where the epithet "fat" cannot be applied, and this one surely fit the bill. A massively scaled wine, with plenty of richness and evolved character. I'd have loved a touch more freshness, but it is what it is. Fingers crossed for my last bottle, which I suppose I ought to drink soon.

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  3/5/2016 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  It's a treat to pop a bottle of white Burgundy that comes from before the age of the pox and to have it show so spectacularly well. The nose is tropical and rich, with a touch of lemongrass, coconut, and pineapple (Thai-style pina colada, anyone?). The palate shows amazing richness thanks to lots of ripe fruit elements, but there's enough acidity here to hold it. Perhaps a touch of sweetness from the ripe fruit on the finish. The heat does poke through a little, but all in all, this is an amazing bottle of chardonnay.

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