Wine Advocate: 90 Points
Bursting with aromas of peach pear crushed mint and buttery pastry the 2022 Chassagne-Montrachet Village is medium-bodied ample and textural with a pure core of fruit and a saline finish. It's derived from several parcels on the alluvial fan. 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: 89-91 Points
From three plots by the 1er and grand cru vineyards. Pale lemon and lime. Plenty of energy here linear obviously from white soil pure orchard fruit with a fresh finish.
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