Bachelet-Monnot Chassagne-Montrachet 2021

Bachelet-Monnot Chassagne-Montrachet is a village white drawn from six separate parcels spread across the commune.

Chassagne-Montrachet sits at the southern end of the Côte de Beaune and is best known for whites that combine flesh with a firm mineral spine. Domaine Bachelet-Monnot, run by brothers Marc and Alexandre Bachelet from a base in Maranges, has become one of the more reliable addresses for white Burgundy at this level. The cuvée is assembled from La Canière, Le Chêne, Les Benoîtes, Pot Bois, En Journoblot and Les Houillères. Most sit below the premier cru band, but Pot Bois is one of Chassagne's highest vineyards, lying above Paul Pillot's Clos Saint-Jean, while Les Houillères sits beneath Bâtard-Montrachet. The average age of the vines is around thirty years. As with the domaine's other whites, fermentation is spontaneous and the wine is raised in barrel, with 350-litre casks the preferred size, giving a fleshy but precise village wine.

Approachable from release and worth keeping five to seven years; serve at 10–12°C with roast pork, blue-eye trevalla or a mild washed-rind cheese.

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