2015 Domaine Jean Chartron Montrachet Grand Cru

The 2015 Montrachet Grand Cru, which comes from purchased must and matured in a single one-year-old barrel, has an attractive ripe passion fruit and lychee-scented bouquet that did not offer the same level of breeding and linearity as the Chevalier-Montrachet Clos des Chevaliers. The palate is ripe and almost tropical in style: hints of vanilla, passion fruit and lychee, generous in the mouth if missing the tension and mineral core of the Chevalier-Montrachet. This is a decent Montrachet if not the best in show from Chartron this year.