2020 Chassagne Montrachet Les Vides Bourses
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Vide Bourse is one of the best located sites in the Côte d’Or. The Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru is a continuation of Grand Cru Bâtard-Montrachet on the downward slope. The wine was a stand-out from an impressive line-up of wines from Albert Bichot in 2020 – having everything you could ask for. The nose is concentrated, gourmand in style, supported by a beautiful line of citrus zest, brioche and stone fruit. This full-bodied Chassagne-Montrachet is driven by excellent tension and spectacular acidity – a distinct character of 2020 white Burgundy. The mid-palate is rich. With ripe white peach flavours, it is extremely textural and mouth-coating. The wine is well balanced and offers a long, powerful, buttery, complex finish. Surprisingly, the wood is already smoothly integrated, bringing just the necessary amount of structure to the palate. This is a serious wine which will be enjoyable in the coming three years but age gracefully over a decade. With only one barrel produced, this is exclusive to FINE+RARE.
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Allen Meadows, Burghound
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♥ Outstanding. This also conveys a hint of the exotic with its nose of both white and yellow peach, citrus rind and a similar hint of passion fruit is trimmed in just enough wood to notice. There is fine richness and excellent volume to the intense medium weight plus flavors that terminate in a compact and tightly wound finale where a touch of warmth slowly emerges. This is also going to need at least a few years of patience.” Drink 2028+
About the producer
Although the Bichot family settled in the region in 1350, Albert Bichot was founded in 1831 by Bernard Bichot. Today the producer is one of Burgundy’s most respected, making wines from both its own vineyards and with purchased fruit.