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Jean Chartron, Batard Montrachet Grand Cru 2016
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Reviewed by: Neal Martin
The 2016 Bâtard Montrachet Grand Cru was reduced from four to three barrels because of the frost. It has a fine peach skin, red apples and cold slate-scented bouquet that opens with confidence with aeration. The palate is fresh on the entry, very focused and with a keen line of acidity. Very harmonious with superb salinity on the finish that keeps you coming back. Due to be bottled by Easter, try and bag one of the 750 odd bottles.
About the Producer
Domaine jean chartron in puligny montrachet since 1859. today, jean-michel and anne-laure, the 5th generation, have the privilege of exploiting parcels of village appellation, premiers’ crus and grands crus located among the best of the côte de beaune and the côte chalonnaise The domaine jean chartron farms 14.50 ha in puligny-montrachet and neighbouring communes. Jean-michel vinifies the wines of the domaine, which express their terroir admirably through a diverse range of aromas and flavours. As for his sister anne-laure, with the help of her team, she looks after ‘the family gardens’ with the greatest respect for the environment and the land. Whether in the vineyard or in the cellar, everything is done at the domaine with the utmost respect for tradition and the environment. We ensure the respect of the vine’s thanks, among other things, to a meticulous work of the soil, the management of the sap flow during the pruning, or even by precise green work until the harvest. The vines have an average age of 40 years. An extremely careful plantation management policy guarantees, in addition to the quality of the wines, a regularity of the volumes produced.
