Joseph Colin - Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru Chenevottes 2022 (750ml)
Price: $164.00
| Producer | Joseph Colin |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Subregion | Chassagne Montrachet |
| Varietal | Chardonnay |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 8460 |
| Size | 750ml |
Wine Advocate: 93 Points
Pure and pretty the 2022 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Chenevottes unwinds in the glass with aromas of peach orange oil white flowers and wet stones. Medium to full-bodied satiny and layered it's bright and saline concluding with a delicately perfumed 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
Jasper Morris: 93 Points
Three barrels with no new wood. Just a faint lime tinge to the pale colour. The bouquet suggests a slightly stony white fruit. This is very pure on the palate precise even with a striking length ripe enough fruit that the acidity barely impinges. Notable length very classy in the Joseph Colin mineral style. Joseph thinks that Chenevottes is well suited to drier and warmer years as the vines and grapes stay nourished.
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