2018 Chevalier Montrachet La Cabotte
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The 2018 Chevalier-Montrachet La Cabotte Grand Cru has an odd nose with perfumed orange blossom and apricot scents, though for me it lacks real mineralité . The palate is medium-bodied with fine-boned tannins, fresh and vibrant, quite chalky and tensile towards the finish. Nice sapidity here, although the aromatics need to up their game. This is a curious showing given how well it tasted from barrel. Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2018 white tasting.
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The Wine Advocate
Tim Jackson MW, jancisrobinson.com
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Revisited in bottle, Bouchard's 2018 Chevalier-Montrachet La Cabotte Grand Cru has turned out beautifully, mingling aromas of crisp green orchard fruit, fresh peach, citrus oil, honeycomb and buttered toast—much as it did a year ago. Full-bodied, satiny and incisive, its textural attack segues into an ample, youthfully tightly wound mid-palate girdled by racy acids and underpinned by chalky structuring extract.
Deep, spicy and flinty, with a richness of stone fruit and plenty of palate weight. Powerful finish reverberates. Definitively grand cru. (TJ)
The 2018 Chevalier-Montrachet La Cabotte Grand Cru comes from a small band of 0.21 hectares above Montrachet. Curiously, it does not convey the same complexity as the regular Chevalier-Montrachet on the nose. The palate is quite elegant, with a little more viscosity on the entry, a fine bead of acidity and a slightly honeyed texture on the finish. It is precise and poised, but again, does not equal the complexity of the Chevalier-Montrachet, which is advantaged by coming from all four terraces instead of a single plot.
About the producer
Bouchard Père & Fils is one of Burgundy’s oldest and most established wine producers. Founded in 1731 by Michel Bouchard, it is the largest vineyard owner in the Côte d’Or with 130 hectares of vines.