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White dry
Delicate pneumatic pressing, indigenous yeast and malolactic fermentation in barrel. Aged for 18 months on fine lees in 228L oak barrels. Bâtard-Montrachet is the third most famous Grand Cru to bear the name Montrachet and is a major actor in the propagation of Chardonnay around the world. Over time, this once uncultivated hill has become a mythical place for lovers of great white wines. Only 200 cases are made each year.
Serve at 12-14 °C with fresh salmon seasoned with dill, crayfish in cream sauce, scallops, intense cheeses, white meat dishes such as veal.
This was the last wine I tasted on my three-week Burgundy tour and it was a great way to finish. Sourced from a 0.33ha block of 60-year-old vines on the Chassagne side of the Grand Cru, it's consistently the most patrician wine in Caroline Lestimé's range. Spicy, structured and stylishy oaked in 60% new barrels, it's powerful yet fresh with wonderful energy. Drinking Window 2023 - 2035
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.
In 1989, after returning from a business school in Paris, Caroline L’Estimé took over the winemaking craft from her father, Jean-Noël Gagnard. The style of this farm, which specializes in white Chassagne-Montrachet wine, emphasizes the delicate character of the Chardonnay grapes. The wine from the vineyards managed by Caroline stands out with delicate aromas of wild mushrooms, melted butter, dried herbs and citrus fruits. Asked why her wines are just that, unique to Chassagne-Montrachet, the winemaker smiles and just shrugs - "I try not to disturb the influence of nature on wine itself". The wines are made simply and sincerely. There are no games with reductions, and new oak barrels are almost never used. As the farming is organic and still in line with biodynamic principles and procedures, the delicate processes in the winery seem very logical. Caroline is true to the Chassagne tradition: for white wines are mostly used neutral oak barrels, where the wine is matured for as long as 18-20 months. Almost no filtration. Since 2014 12.5 ha of exclusive family vineyards have been certified organically and are now managed biodynamically.
