Domaine Blain-Gagnard - Criots-Batard-Montrachet Grand Cru 2020 (750ml)

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Producer	Domaine Blain-Gagnard
Country	France
Region	Burgundy
Subregion	Chassagne-Montrachet
Varietal	Borgogne Blanc (Chardonnay)
Vintage	2020
Sku	6451
Size	750ml

 

This is marvellous. Blain crushes the grapes lightly and avoids sulphur until after malo. His way of working produces this subtle, elegant wine with notes of ripe pear touched with acacia blossom, a touch of smoke and his trademark minerality. The texture is dense but never heavy, and the wine lingers elegantly on the finish.

The 2020 Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru comprised just three barrels in this vintage, which is three more than most growers. It was picked on 21 August. There is wonderful tension on the nose with scents of lanolin and fern, beautifully defined and vibrant. The palate is very complex with touches of ginger complementing the citrus fruit, building all the time in the glass and fanning out on the finish. Excellent.

This is relatively firmly reduced so if you're tempted to try a bottle young, be sure to give it some air first. Otherwise, there is good power and underlying tension to the medium weight plus flavors that retain solid delineation on the impressively long finish. This will need to add depth with time in bottle, but the material is present for that to occur.