2012 Chevalier Montrachet Les Demoiselles

(13.3% alcohol with 4.3 g/l acidity): Bright medium yellow. Youthfully reduced aromas of mirabelle, citrus peel and wet stone. Elegant and pristine on the palate, showing outstanding precision and cut to the dense, creamy flavors of lemon, lime and crushed rock. Not a fat style but boasts compelling juicy energy, intensity, lift and length. This outstanding grand cru will probably need seven or eight years of bottle aging to approach peak drinkability.

Much more punch and life than the Bâtard. Really exciting with a raw, nervy edge on top of sheer concentration. Bravissimo! (JR)

Tasted blind at the Burgundy 2012 tasting in Beaune. The 2012 Chevalier Montrachet Les Demoiselles Grand Cru from Louis Jadot has a slightly touch of reduction, but it merely enhances the bouquet that delivers pure beeswax, jasmine and honeysuckle aromas, just a hint of brioche that emerges with time. The palate is clean and fresh on the entry with very well judged acidity. There is a lot of weight here, very focused and intense, a bolder and more extravagant Chevalier-Montrachet than Philippe Colin's Chevalier-Montrachet. This is a grand cru that needs time to be tamed. Oct 2015, www.robertparker.com