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CRIOTS BÂTARD MONTRACHET

2011 Grand Cru Domaine Hubert Lamy

Grapes Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Beaune
Village Chassagne Montrachet
Classification Grand Cru
ABV 13%
Vineyard Criots Bâtard Montrachet

Very intense this year. A really fantastic balance of ripe pears, juicy, fleshy, fat and mineral precison in bright tautness. Very impressive and very sensual. Really coats the palate and finishes very long. L&S (Jan 2013)


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There is little doubt Olivier Lamy's 2011 Criots-Batard-Montrachet is one of the truly great wines of the vintage. Utterly vivid and constantly changing in the glass, the 2011 captivates all of the sense - both hedonistic and intellectual - with a captivating mélange of exotic white flowers, crushed rocks and pears. The bright, crystalline flavors blossom beautifully in the glass in that sweet, perfumed, ethereal style that is the signature of Criots. What an utterly moving, delicious wine this is. Rating: 97 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Nov 2013)

Pure and lifted with a glimmer of white flowers. It flows elegantly and lightly onto the palate. Cool and yet bright. A silky fine texture, slightly cool grip and a light fission of tension. It is bright and threaded with fine acidity and freshness. Very elegant, pure and mineral wine with a prolonged and salty finish. A light-bodied, but very refined grand cru. Delicacy with intensity. Fine++. From 2018Sarah Marsh MW, The Burgundy Briefing (Nov 2012)

Domaine Hubert Lamy

Olivier Lamy has built on the solid foundations his father Hubert prepared with twenty years and more of work in the vineyards. Today the Domaine has 18.5 hectares of vines - 80% are Chardonnay and 20% Pinot Noir. The vines are in several appellations - Saint-Aubin, Puligny-Montrachet, Chassagne-Montrachet and Santenay, as well as the excellent Bourgogne Blanc. The reputation of the domaine is now made, but the Saint Aubins, both red and white, remain some of the bargains of Côte d'Or, and challenge the supposed superiority of the grander village names on a regular basis, both in terms of young and mature wines.

Olivier's wine-making style and preference is to emphasise the fresh and the mineral side of his wines, and there is very little new wood in this cellar, with many wines with no new wood at all, and that is with the wines in 600 litre demi-muids rather that the classic Burgundy (225 litre) fût. Certainly Oliver's whites do have an arrow-like purity and intensity, and seem to age completely straight and true.

The reds are worth more than a casual mention too. Olivier has been getting some consultation help from Sylvain Pataille, and the wines have energy and bounce along with the supple tannins and ripeness.

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