2017 Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru La Vougeraie

The 2017 Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru showed just a little reduction on the nose, displaying a faint cough candy scent along with yellow flowers and lemon thyme; an underlying steeliness emerges with continued aeration. The palate has a lime- and orange-peel-tinged entry, good weight and less reduction than the aromatics. It feels fresh and lightly spiced toward a citric, energetic, complex finish. This has a lot of potential and was easily the best showing from the estate at the Burgfest blind tasting.

Sulfur and matchstick notes dominate the underlying fruit at present. Once again the palate feel of the slightly bigger bodied and more powerful flavors brim with both dry extract and minerality, indeed it's akin to rolling tiny stones around in the mouth, all wrapped in a gorgeously long and impeccably well-balanced finale. This is class in a glass and a wine that should also repay extended cellaring.