Reviews & Scores
The 2009 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru is a brilliant wine that's evolving at a glacial pace. Unwinding in the glass with notes of citrus oil, crisp orchard fruit, fresh bread, struck match and beeswax, it's full-bodied, deep and satiny, with a concentrated and tightly wound core, racy girdling acids and chalky structuring extract. Long and resonant, this impeccably blanched wine is impressively youthful for the vintage, and while it's immensely compelling today, it will be even better with another decade on the clock. This is one of the wines of the vintage in the Côte de Beaune. - WA
WA98September 2021
There is just one barrel of the 2009 Bâtard-Montrachet, which is a shame, as the wine is marvelous. This is a breathtaking, rich Bâtard endowed with layers of expressive fruit. Minerals and all sorts of crushed rocks frame the intensely pointed, chiseled finish. The Bâtard remains fresh, vibrant and weightless in a kaleidoscopic, dazzling style that only great white Burgundy is capable of delivering. - VM
VM95August 2011
There is enough sulfur present to render the overtly ripe nose difficult to read. There is however excellent richness and serious size and weight to the broad-shouldered flavors that possess exceptionally good mid-palate concentration that buffers the firm acid spine on the explosively long and palate staining finish. This is terrific and should age gracefully for up to a decade. - BH
BH95July 2011
Pale greenish gold. Smoky nose and massive excitement and nervosité plus weight so that it gives the impression of compensating for the acidity so you could enjoy it tonight! But that would be such a shame... SO much here! Lots of citrus on the finish and it opens out. Amazingly long. Bâtard didn’t suffer water stress – they picked the limestone parcels before they were affected. Made two 300-litre barrels. - JR
JR18.5October 2010