Here made by the famous Jacques Prieur estate, this Chevalier Montrachet Grand Cru is one of the 7 white Grands Crus of Burgundy.
Vintage 2022, it offers opulence, fatness and complexity at the height of one of the most beautiful Burgundy wines, in the category of the best white wines in the world!
Chevalier Montrachet Grand Cru 2022
Complex
Powerful
Mineral
Fruity
Woody
The Chevalier Montrachet is one of the 7 White Grands Crus of Burgundy and is one of the 5 Grands Crus of the Montrachet family.
Located in the south of the Côte de Beaune, in Puligny-Montrachet, the appellation covers 7 hectares.
here a Chevalier Montrachet Grand Cru 2022 from the famous Jacques Prieur estate, on a 0.13 hectare plot located at the top of the hillside, due east. Covering soil, outcrop of white marl.
The grapes are harvested by hand in small crates and then the whole bunches are pressed in a pneumatic press. The juice is settled after pressing for 36 hours at a controlled temperature. Alcoholic fermentation and ageing are done 100% in new oak barrels. Malolactic fermentation is 100% complete.
Ageing period: 22 months.
Only the greatest wines can provoke this type of intense emotions when they are opened. Here, the pleasure begins with the visual: the colour will be gold with emerald reflections, the bouquet will offer an extremely complex bouquet that will range from notes of warm pastries, dried fruits, to spices and honey.
A very harmonious wine with perfect balance, which will offer incredible power, structure, roundness and persistence.
White Burgundy Wines Round and Powerful: Foie Gras, Creamy Sauce Fish, Grilled Sea fish, Lobsters, lobsters, Cream Poulardes, Civet Volailles, Epoisse, Roquefort, Bleu de Bresse
Appellation
Grand CruType of Wine
StillWine Making
Oak casksGrape Variety
ChardonnayHarvest
ManualBurgundy Region
Côte de BeauneVintage
2022Service
12 to 14 degreesCustody potential
2032Degree of alcohol
13°
White: subtle differences in the wines signal variations in Climat but they also share many common traits. Their colour is gold flecked with emerald, darkening towards yellow with age. Their bouquet evokes butter and warm croissants, bracken, dried fruit, spices and honey. Body and bouquet are not separately distinguishable, so closely blended are structure and harmony into a single perfect whole. Unctuous and firm, dry and caressing, enveloped and profound, these wines combine every virtue in a firmly-established personality.
The power and aromatic persistence of these lofty wines demands aristocratic and sophisticated dishes with complex textures: foie gras, of course, and caviar. Lobster, crawfish, and large wild prawns, with their powerful flavours and firm textures, pay well-deserved homage to the wine and match its opulence. Firm-fleshed white fish such as monkfish would be equally at home in their company. And let us not forget well-bred and well-fattened free-range poultry whose delicate flesh, with the addition of a cream-and-mushroom sauce, will be lapped up in the unctuous and noble texture of this wine. Even a simple piece of veal, fried or in sauce, would be raised to heavenly heights by the Montrachet’s long and subtle acidity.
Serving temperature: 12 to 14°C.
The Montrachet family consists of five Grands Crus grown in the two villages of Puligny-Montrachet and Chassagne-Montrachet. These two share the Montrachet and Bâtard-Montrachet appellations. Chevalier-Montrachet and Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet belong to Puligny-Montrachet, Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet belongs to Chassagne-Montrachet. These Grands Crus are the most southerly of the Côte de Beaune, and lie between Meursault in the North and Santenay in the South.
Their origins go back to the Middle Ages - the work of the Cistercian abbey of Maizières and the Lords of Chagny. The wines of Montrachet (pronounced Mon-rachay) came fully into their own in the 17th century.
There is no argument: this is the finest expression of the Chardonnay grape anywhere on earth ! The appellations Grands Crus date from 31 July, 1937.
The underlying rocks date from the Jurassic, 175 million years BC. Exposures lie to the East and the South. Altitudes: 265-290 metres (Chevalier) ; 250-270 metres (Montrachet) ; 240-250 metres (Bâtard, Bienvenues, Criots). In the
Climat of Montrachet, the soils are thinnish and lie on hard limestone traversed by a band of reddish marl. In Chevalier, the soils are thin and stony rendzinas derived from marls and marly-limestones. In the Bâtard Climat soils are brown limestone which are deeper and, at the foot of the slope, more clayey.
Source : https://www.bourgogne-wines.com
The Jacques Prieur estate in Meursault has one of the most beautiful panoplies of great appellations in Burgundy: located in Meursault, it produces wines such as the Chevalier Montrachet and Montrachet Grands Crus in whites, Clos Vougeot, Musigny or Chambertin in reds.
Also owner of several vineyards under monopoly in Meursault.
