2017 Vincent & Sophie Morey - Chassagne-Montrachet Les Embrazees 1er Cru
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The 2017 Chassagne-Montrachet Les Embrazees 1er Cru is a richer, riper wine, mostly from old vines (planted in 1962, 1987, and most recently in 2000) and brought up all in barrel, 40% being new. It offers medium to full-bodied notes of white flowers, lemon blossom, honeyed pineapple, and a beautiful crushed rock-like minerality. Rounded, beautifully textured, and layered on the palate, it has nicely integrated acidity, a clean, balanced profile, and a great finish. This riveting Chassagne-Montrachet has both richness and freshness. Drink it over the coming 8-10 years.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Jeb Dunnuck
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The 2017 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Embrazées offers up notes of buttered orchard fruit, apricot, fresh mint and crème brûlée, the prelude to a medium to full-bodied palate with fine depth and tension at the core, good concentration, succulent balancing acids and a creditably long finish.
Pale, bright yellow. Reticent nose hints at menthol and white pepper. A step up in richness and density from the Baudines (with the added fat no doubt at least partly due to the older vines), with its flavors of pineapple and ripe pear complicated by an element of positive reduction. This intense wine finishes with a slightly hard lemony edge that calls for a racking. Morey told me that the parcel that originally came to him from his father Bernard was harvested at 13.8% potential alcohol, while the Embrazées vines from his wife's family were a full degree lower.