1996 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru
France
Batard Montrachet
Burgundy
White
Chardonnay
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Ramonet top '96s are wines of considerable power, but they are very clenched now and will require patience. At the time of my visit, Noel Ramonet still favored his '95s for their finesse. The earlier vintage, he explained, finished with lower residual sugar and shows less of the honey and crystallized fruit elements that characterize the '96s. My notes had the two vintages quite close in quality, with the lower level '95s perhaps having a slight edge over the same wines from the later year. But these are among the most difficult white Burgundies to assess with confidence in the year or so after bottling. The '97s had finished their malos, but were in a very reduced state, so I will wait until next spring to taste them in depth. Ramonet describes 1997 as a better version of 1994; the fruit, he says, was rather low in acidity and the wines are already quite floral, as they are expressing themselves earlier than usual.
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Ramonet top '96s are wines of considerable power, but they are very clenched now and will require patience. At the time of my visit, Noel Ramonet still favored his '95s for their finesse. The earlier vintage, he explained, finished with lower residual sugar and shows less of the honey and crystallized fruit elements that characterize the '96s. My notes had the two vintages quite close in quality, with the lower level '95s perhaps having a slight edge over the same wines from the later year. But these are among the most difficult white Burgundies to assess with confidence in the year or so after bottling. The '97s had finished their malos, but were in a very reduced state, so I will wait until next spring to taste them in depth. Ramonet describes 1997 as a better version of 1994; the fruit, he says, was rather low in acidity and the wines are already quite floral, as they are expressing themselves earlier than usual.
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