Jean-Marc Pillot, Chassagne Montrachet Macherelles Blanc other_regions white flowers and tangerine peel

white flowers and tangerine peel

It reveals the most balanced palate of all of the 2010 wines

festive spices and the beginnings of savory

There is an equally lovely sense of purity to the mineral-inflected

Jean-Marc Pillot, Chassagne Montrachet Macherelles Blanc other_regions white flowers and tangerine peelThis is the first wine to display any appreciable reduction and it is enough to push the underlying fruit to the background. By contrast there is good verve and freshness to the moderately dense flavors that possess almost painful intensity on the lemony, linear and chiseled finale that flashes both first rate depth and length. Its rare for Macherelles to achieve this level of quality color me impressed.