2016 Chevalier Montrachet

Ramonet's 2016 Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru is also among the white wines of the vintage, nipping at the heels of their monumental Montrachet. Opening in the glass with a classy bouquet of lemon oil, white flowers, crushed rocks, mint and beeswax, it's full-bodied, powerful and very incisive, with a satiny attack, a deep and layered mid-palate and a long, searingly intense finish. Concentrated and tensile, it's the quintessential Chevalier-Montrachet.

(production was cut 30% by frost): Captivating bright, high-pitched aromas of lemon, powdered rock and mint. A serious live wire in the mouth, with its fine-grained flavors of citrus fruits and liquid stone showing outstanding precision and lift. Really vibrates and builds on the palate-saturating finish. Here, too, there's a touch of finishing bitterness that's going to take a minimum of five years to be absorbed.