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2018 Vincent Girardin Chassagne Montrachet Caillerets 1er Cru, Cote de Beaune

A$313.75
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93

Bright and vibrant, the 2018 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Caillerets delivers aromas of crisp green apple, orange oil, white flowers and pastry cream. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and incisive, it's mineral and electric, with a deep core of fruit and a long, saline finish.

93+ points William Kelley robertparker.com

Reputations, once formed, are hard to shake, and one of my recurring professional challenges is to attempt to change them. Times passes, personnel move on, and approaches evolve; but stereotypes persist. So all I can do is repeat that the wines produced under the Vincent Girardin label today are superb and that I'm happy to have some in my own cellar. Readers will remember the history: Vincent Girardin debuted as a winemaker in 1982, creating his négociant maison in 1990 with his family domaine holdings at its core, distinguished by insisting on purchasing grapes as opposed to must or finished wines. When Girardin's expanding holdings became too much to handle, Eric Germain—brother of Jean-François Germain, who presides over Meursault reference-point Domaine Henri Germain—was brought in to supervise winemaking in 2002. Germain, as he puts it, harbored the ambition "to make not merely good wine but instead great wine," and also wines that could age. He presided over a wholesale change in winemaking practices that has continued to progress since the maison's purchase by the Compagnie des Vins d’Autrefois in 2011. Wines that were once oaky and somewhat exaggerated are now taut, incisive and beautifully differentiated by site. There's much more attention to detail in the vineyards—fully 21 hectares of which are now owned—and they are increasingly being converted to biodynamic farming. Élevage is longer. And Germain uses much less new oak and little bâtonnage. So, this is now a very serious source for high-quality white Burgundy, and the reflex to dismiss this producer as "commercial" is entirely misplaced. While the fact that Germain enjoyed considerable success in 2017 is almost to be expected, the true measure of the quality of what is being done here is the success of the 2018s: seamless, structured and complete, they display all of the year's merits and none of its weaknesses. Everything reviewed here therefore comes warmly recommended.


 

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Product/Service Sold Out No
En Primeur No
New Arrivals No
Wine Type White Wine
Wine Style Traditional
Country France
Region Burgundy, Cote de Beaune
Varietals Chardonnay
Vintage 2018
Bottle Size 750ml
Wine Points 93-94
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