2007 Chevalier Montrachet

Full straw-yellow color. Apple and stone on the nose, plus a whiff of resin. Supple, broad and sweet, with enticing ripe apple and pear flavors brightened by harmonious acidity. A rather powerful and penetrating wine that's nicely balanced from the outset but has a lot of material in reserve. Spreads out impressively to saturate the palate on the back end.

Highly complex aromas of pineapple, peach, minerals and white flowers. Fat, sweet and rich, with a strong mineral component giving sappiness and energy to the wine's powerful fruit. Classy, minerally wine: it's hard to scrape this off the palate.

A 2007 Chevalier-Montrachet of which Philippe Colin can boast a whopping five barrels smells sweetly of ripe pear, honeysuckle, and nutmeg. Rich and silken-textured on the palate, yet preserving the same sense of energy and fresh-fruit brightness that made his Demoiselles so convincing, this sets up a finishing oscillation of pit fruits, citrus, and minerals that will lift your spirits even as it seems to eventually waft away. This in no way betrays its (for the vintage) relatively high 13.7% alcohol, on the contrary. I would anticipate 8-10 years of fascination and exhilaration from this. Dec 2009, www.robertparker.com