Here too the fruit cannot compete with the strong level of sulfur influence. There is better volume and richness if not the same refinement to the attractively textured, lilting and stony flavors that deliver better depth on the equally persistent finish where a touch of wood surfaces. Lovely stuff with very fine development potential.

Score: 91-93 Allen Meadow (AM), Bourghound (BH), June 2019

Bright medium yellow-green. Alluring scents of lemon drop, caraway seed, pungent crushed rock and spices. Wonderfully fine-grained and slightly glyceral, with its flavors of lemon zest, anise and crushed rock conveying terrific mineral-driven definition and purity. Turns more austere on the very long, slowly mounting, white-peppery whiplash of a finish. A potentially great, elegant example of an outstanding terroir. Colin has three 350-liter barrels of this juice, one of them new--or about 42 hectoliters per hectare. He told me that this wine "was nothing at the beginning: both oxidized and reduced at the same time."

Score: 92-95 Stephen Tanzer (ST), Vinous Media (VM), September 2018

From one of Pierre-Yves Colin´s finest domaine holdings, the 2017 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Caillerets offers up aromas of noisette, white flowers, beeswax, Anjou pear and crushed chalk. On the medium to full-bodied palate, the wine is quite closed but extremely promising, revealing a deep, concentrated core framed by tangy acids and chalky dry extract, concluding with a long, penetrating finish.

Pierre-Yves Colin described the 2017 vintage as "pure and transparent," with the wines nicely defined by their terroirs. They are, he adds, "more charming than I imagined—less ´cold´ in style." Old vines, he says, produced notably more interesting musts than younger plantings, an observation borne out along the Côte. Colin began picking early, on August 28, as usual privileging freshness; though I wonder if a successful experiment with picking his Corton-Charlemagne a little later than had been his habit suggests that the stylistic pendulum may be about to subtly swing at this address? In any case, he has produced a successful range, true to the strong house style, though showing comparatively little overt reduction when I visited after the harvest. As ever, no distinction is made on the labels between domaine and négociant wines, and Colin is increasingly taking responsibility for farming the parcels from which he purchases fruit.

Score: 92-94 William Kelley (WK), The Wine Advocate (WA), February 2019