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| Region | Burgundy |
| Appellation | Cote de Beaune |
| Category | White Wine |
| Classification | Grand Cru (Burgundy 1935) |
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| Cat | Region | Year | Producer, Wine | Size | C(s) | Bt(s) | HKD/Cs | HKD/Bt | Score | Critic | |
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Burgundy | 2009 | Domaine Louis Jadot, Montrachet Grand Cru | BT | - | - | - | HK$4,000 | 94+ | ST | |
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The 2009 Montrachet is a wine of contrasts. It is at once delicate yet powerful, and constantly changing in the glass, in the way only the best wines can. This is a cool, precise Montrachet endowed with tons of class and personality. It needs at least a few years to come together, but it is immensely promising. This is a very strong effort from Jadot. Anticipated maturity: 2014+. Jacques Lardiere and Frederic Barnier showed me a wide range of 2009s during my visit in late June, 2011. Many of the jewels among the 2009s are hidden in the villages level wines, which I highly encourage readers to check out. I also tasted a selection of 2008s. The 2008s are quite fat for the year. Yields were lower than in 2009. Lardiere made the decision to age the wines longer on their lees to give them more richness, which he felt was lacking because of the inconsistent, high acid vintage. As a result, these are fairly big 2008s.
Score: 93+ Robert Parker (RP), The Wine Advocate (WA), August 2011
An adroit application of wood easily allows the very ripe and moderately exotic and highly complex nose of roasted nuts, yellow orchard fruit and spice hints to express itself. There is outstanding richness, body, size and weight to the impressively scaled flavors that coat the palate with seemingly endless reserves of dry extract before culminating in an impressively long finish. This is a big and opulent Montrachet that is perhaps a bit less refined than I´m used to seeing, yet one that possesses the underlying structure to reward extended aging if desired yet it will be unusually approachable young.
Score: 93 Allen Meadow (AM), Bourghound (BH), June 2012
Pale yellow. Very ripe aromas of fresh apricot, mint, marzipan and smoky oak, with a suggestion of candied stone fruits. Big, rich and backward but a bit youthfully sullen. Outstanding intensity to the citrus, menthol and iodine flavors. As large-scaled as this is, there´s no heaviness. This powerful Montrachet will need extended cellaring.
Score: 94+ Stephen Tanzer (ST), Vinous Media (VM), September 2011