2015 Chassagne Montrachet Les Caillerets
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The 2015 Chassagne-Montrachet Les Caillerets 1er Cru offers plenty of candied orange peel intermixed with vanilla extract and frangipane aromas. The aromatics feel too keen to be loved, lacking restraint or a sense of terroir expression. The balanced palate features lime cordial, orange zest and a twist of bitter lemon, showing moderate acidity but culminating in a rather obvious finish. To be honest, I encountered a much better bottle a few weeks earlier, hence the plus signs against my score. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.
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Neal Martin
William Kelley, Wine Advocate
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The 2015 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Caillerets offers up notes of fresh peach and honeyed citrus, followed by a medium to full-bodied, generous and open-knit palate with a rich, textural attack. Les Caillerets shows through in its stony, layered core, but it's a plusher, more gourmand example of the site this year.
The 2015 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Cailleret has a strict, mineral-driven, Puligny-like bouquet that is much more austere than I would have expected given the growing season. The palate is very well balanced with a palpable sense of energy, superb acidity and an almost clinical, harmonious finish that finally delivers beautifully interwoven tropical tones that linger on the aftertaste. This is very impressive. Dec 2016, www.robertparker.com, Drink: 2018-2030