2022 Chateau de la Maltroye Les Chenevottes, Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru, France

Winemaker Notes

Jean-Pierre Cournut noted 2021 is "one of those unexpected vintages that turned out to be much better than you originally imagined that it might be. I say that because between the frost and a difficult, wet, gray and problematic growing season, it was frankly hard to be especially optimistic. We picked from the 17th to the 23rd of September and yields were all over the place. This is to say that the pinot was not far from normal but the chardonnay got seriously hammered at around -70%. Potential alcohols were also quite varied at between 12.2 and 13.6%. I vinified pretty much as always as the pinot was ripe and clean so there wasn't really any reason to do otherwise. Even so, I wasn't expecting anything special yet the quality is really quite good and moreover, in both colors." I would agree with Cournut as 2021 is indeed a fine vintage for him and, as he correctly notes in my view, in both colors. With that said, while the reds are certainly lovely, several of his whites are absolutely brilliant, in particular the Bâtard, La Dent de Chien and La Romanée. Cournut noted that the 2021 whites were bottled at the end of October 2022. 

Press

Note: from Chenevottes proper. Here the nose is relatively firmly reduced to if you're going to crack a bottle young, be sure to give it some air first. Otherwise, there is both excellent freshness and verve suffusing the sleek, detailed and beautifully textured medium-bodied flavors that brim with sappy dry extract that buffers the moderately firm acid spine shaping the bitter lemon-inflected and bone-dry finish. This is very compact at present and a wine that definitely needs at least a few years of patience.*Burghound Outstanding!*