Jean-Marc Pillot, Chassagne Montrachet Macherelles Blanc other_regions_italy

Jean-Marc Pillot, Chassagne Montrachet Macherelles Blanc other_regions_italyThis is the first wine to display any appreciable reduction and it is enough to push the underlying fruit to the background. By contrast there is good verve and freshness to the moderately dense flavors that possess almost painful intensity on the lemony, linear and chiseled finale that flashes both first rate depth and length. Its rare for Macherelles to achieve this level of quality color me impressed.

complex and solidly persistent finish

and built around resolved tannins

(from vines that average 50+ years of age)

Ready to enjoy now

mint and liquorice notes

This is Hubert de Boüard's top wine from his Lalande de Pomerol property

up there with Pajzos and Disznok

plum and mocha in the nose and finish

A restrained but wideranging nose grudgingly reveals notes of dark cherry

There is a lush and opulent mouth feel to the concentrated and palate coating medium weight plus flavors that possess excellent phenolic maturity and real drive on the moderately structured

The clear class of the range and one of those wines with the ‘wow’ factor built to age for decades

It is literally a one man undertaking with Casajus also doubling as his village’s baker