Jasper Morris: 93-95 Points
A glowing pale lime colour. Some restrained floral notes but not demonstrative. On the palate there is a strong line of chalky white fruit with a discreet intensity but clearly adequately ripe. Not a wine to drink young as there is so much more to give.
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Wine Advocate: 93+ Points
The 2022 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru En Cailleret is lively and expressive revealing aromas of peach pear white flowers and toasted nuts followed by a medium to full-bodied satiny and seamless palate with a sweet core of fruit and a mineral finish. Joseph Colin?who left Domaine Marc Colin to start a domaine of his own in 2016?is now ensconced in a brand-new gravity-flow winery on the outskirts of the village. Colin's approach as I've written before is to pick ripe grapes press whole bunches and barrel down without the addition of sulfites or any settling?sulfur dioxide is added only at bottling (which takes place under Diam closures). Maturation now takes place almost exclusively in large 500- or 600-liter barrels. Wines that are more generously sulfured he acknowledges are more tensile and tight-knit but the tension he argues comes from the sulfur not the terroir. And Colin is happy with what he describes as "a certain immediacy" that comes from low-sulfur élevage a quality that was manifest in his pretty precise expressive 2022s that emphasize the vintage's elegant side. Published: Jan 18 2024
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