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Ramonet, Bienvenues Batard Montrachet Grand Cru 2012
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Reviewed by: William Kelley
The 2012 Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru from Ramonet is already quite accessible, offering up an attractive bouquet of apple, white peach, pastry cream, spring flowers and oak vanillin, followed by a typically glossy, expansive palate impression. I have some reservations, however, about how open knit the wine is on the palate, and a firmer core and more acidic cut to balance this wine's generous body would auger better for the long haul. As it is, this is a Bienvenues to approach in the near term, and I plan to follow that advice with my remaining bottles.
About the Producer
Domaine Ramonet is one of the finest producers in Burgundy, known for the Chardonnay from Chassagne Montrachet village to Montrachet Grand Cru. Domaine Ramonet has been producing consistently high quality Chardonnay in Chassagne Montrachet for 3 generations, it is difficult to talk about Chassagne Montrachet without mentioning Ramonet. Pierre Ramonet came to Burgundy in the late 1920s with nothing more than a knapsack, he started off buying grapes and vinifying them, then later buying his first vineyard in the 1930s. Domaine Ramonet gained a lot of attention very soon after bottling his first wines in his estate. Clive Cotes even wrote ‘Ramonet in white is the equivalent of Henri Jayer or the DRC in red’. By 1950s, Pierre has acquired a handsome holding of Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyards in the Montrachet hill. Amusingly, when Pierre Ramonet has saved enough money in the 1978 and decided to buy a plot in the mighty Montrachet vineyard, he went to the lawyer’s office in Beaune and paid in a thick wad of cash.
