2017 Batard Montrachet

The 2017 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru is very promising, offering up a lovely but youthfully reserved bouquet of crisp orchard fruit, vine blossom, honeysuckle, mandarin and pastry cream. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, broad and ample, with a glossy, textural attack, good depth at the core, chewy extract and a gently oak-inflected finish. This is a very good Bâtard that exemplifies the house style.