CHASSAGNE MONTRACHET

2019 1er Cru Abbaye de Morgeot Domaine Berthelemot

Grapes Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Beaune
Village Chassagne Montrachet
Classification 1er Cru
ABV 14%
Vineyard Abbaye de Morgeot

The 2019 Chassagne-Montrachet Morgeot 1er Cru offers attractive scents of walnut and smoke, yellow flowers and linseed oil. There is a cheeky Riesling-like element to this Chassagne. The palate is well balanced with pineapple, nectarine, Satsumas and ginger stem, mixed with a pinch of white pepper towards the finish. Good energy here, not a long-term prospect, yet a well-made and involving white Burgundy. Drinking range: 2022 - 2028 Rating: 91 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jan 2021)


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The lightness on the nose here seems positive and elegant rather than wimpy. Rich, fruity and minerals on the start and some real integrity here. Lots of potential. Drinking range: 2023 - 2032 Rating: 16.5+ Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2021)

A red clay soil. Clear fresh colour. There is a fair weight to this, rich as well, some honeyed notes, otherwise more white fruit, not too peachy. A classic heavyweight Morgeot, over 14%, which it can take, this will work very well in its style, but merits time. Not for the fainthearted. Tasted: October 2020 *** Rating: 92 Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy  (Oct 2020)

Domaine Berthelemot

Domaine Berthelemot is the creation of Brigitte Berthelemot, who is, by all accounts, something of a tour de force. Brigitte has, in a very short space of time (starting in 2006), knocked together a domaine of 15 hectares, spread over 45 parcels.

The basis of this spread was Domaine Garaudet in Pommard, but then they also took over Domaine Allexant. Charles Allexant was a bouilleur de cru (distiller of marc) who went round the villages plying his trade and who knew the Côte well, and also the vignerons for whom he distilled. In 1957 he bought a first vineyard in Volnay, and others followed, so that he built up a patchwork from Gevrey to the Côte Chalonnaise.

The final piece of the jigsaw was the purchase of Domaine Marey in Pernand.

The whole domaine is worked organically and they are just finishing the conversion so that they will be certified from 2021.

The vinification is overseen by Brigitte's son Thomas, after he worked alongside cellarmaster Marc Cugney (who has now retired) for a number of years. The reds are picked into small cases in which they are transported to the winery - and vinified in stainless steel after a 4 day cold maceration. Extraction is gentle and mostly by remontage. The wines then go into barrel with a maximum of 20% new wood. The whites are pressed, and after a short débourbage, are put in tank, where they begin their fermentation. Once the fermentation is under way, they are moved to barrel, with a maximum of 25% new wood.

The domaine is certified organic since the 2021 vintage

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