Jean-Marc Pillot, Chassagne Montrachet Macherelles Blanc Size:6x750ml The 2018 Extra Brut Premier

The 2018 Extra Brut Premier Cru Le Mont Benoit unwinds in the glass with scents of orange oil

pear juice

wonderfully complex and tautly muscular finish that goes on and on

finishing very long and gently chewy

This is a very fine example of the genre and offers great value

Jean-Marc Pillot, Chassagne Montrachet Macherelles Blanc Size:6x750ml The 2018 Extra Brut PremierThis 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.