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They've excelled at this wine again; like the 2006 the 2007 is clearly too good for a kir; it's more in tune with excellent bourgogne blanc with restrained creamy notes and ripe white fruits, crisp acidity and lovely depth.
2007 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru 'Les Macherelles'
This is pretty with fresh and ripe orchid fruits some dried herb and creamy nutty oak nuances. Quite airy and elegant with understated and layered complexity with a surprisingly powerful finish.
'An expressive nose of fresh, pretty and layered herb-infused aromas that display better wood integration while complementing nicely rich medium-bodied flavors that possess good volume and a mouth coating sappiness on the delicious, long and linear finish that offers just a bit more overall depth. 90/2012+' Burghound.
2007 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru 'La Maltroie'
This has lovely pear and mineral notes, elegant and fine with elegance and restraint. The palate shows excellent balance with its finely textured ripe pear and white nectarine flavors and racy citrus finish.
'Evident wood toast and vanilla frames resin and earth hints on the ripe orchard fruit nose that precedes clean, crisp and intense flavors possessing excellent complexity and a subtle minerality on the persistent finish. This is carrying more wood than I personally like but there is no doubting the complexity. 90/2012+'Burghound
2006 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru 'La Maltroie' rouge
'(from 60+ year old vines – aged in 50% new wood). A touch of wood spice frames more elegant and refined red and blue berry fruit aromas that also display a background note of minerality on the delicious, attractive and nicely focused middle weight flavors that culminate in a mouth coating finish. Lovely. 90 points' Burghound
2007 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru 'Les Vergers'
Gently creamy and nutty with ripe orchid fruits and citrus freshness, the palate is beautifully poised with flavors of white fruits, crème fraiche and mineral texture, the finish is fine and detailed with fresh juicy citrus flavors.
'Very fresh and ripe orchard fruit aromas are in keeping with the extract of peach and apricot flavors that are supple and quite forward and supported by a moderately firm spine of citrusy acid. This isn’t especially complex or concentrated but it’s balanced and pretty. 89/2011+' Burghound
2007 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru 'Les Caillerets'
Ripe and marked by the classy oak at the moment but the peachy fruit character and honey notes are equally as attractive; the palate displays terrific depth and complexity with a powerful and fresh long finish.
'A fresh, pure, elegant and citrus blossom nose reflects subtle mineral notes that are picked up by the vibrant, intense and detailed middle weight flavors that are pretty and persistent but like several wines in the range, the finish just doesn’t have the same depth of material that I’m used to seeing. (89-91)/2012+' Burghound
2007 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru 'Les Damoiselles'
Les Damoiselles is jammed between Le Montrachet and Puligny Montrachet’s Le Caillerets. Fine and complex, restrained, mineral and floral notes, beguiling and beautifully elegant. The palate is wonderfully understated, 45% new oak has been eaten by the wine, white nectarine flavors and mineral-laden with the power arriving moments later with the beautifully refined and persistent and balanced finish.
'Well integrated if not invisible oak influence with a wonderfully elegant green fruit and floral nose leads to richer and fuller flavors that display ample minerality on the mouth coating and impressively intense finish that delivers striking length. A lovely and understated effort where the intrinsic class of the vineyard is evident. 92/2012+' Burghound
2007 Le Montrachet, Grand Cru
100% new oak. This shows an almost painful but incredible intensity, with its powerful yellow fruit notes honey nut and mineral elegance and exciting. The palate is glorious showing great detail and medium-full intensity with freshness and balance with its wonderful finish.
'from two tiny parcels of vines on the Chassagne side totaling only .09 ha planted in 1923 that have never been worked by tractor because the slope is so steep and thus the vines are worked only by hand. Planted entirely to le vrai chardonnay and the parcels are part of the old Dents de Chien vineyard that were included as part of Montrachet as a result of an agreement reached in Beaune in 1921; aged in 100% new wood). Generous wood presently dominates the nose though underneath the oak notes of completely and ripe floral and white peach aromas can be found. The relatively rich, full and sappy middle weight flavors are not particularly concentrated, and culminate in a lemony and linear finish that delivers solid if not truly exceptional length. 91/2013+' Burghound
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