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2007 Blain-Gagnard Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet

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Latest Sale Price

February 25, 2018 - $195

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RATINGS

93Wine Spectator

Smells like the sea, or rather fresh shellfish, with butter, iodine and mineral aromas and flavors. It’s rich, with vanilla and clove accents fleshing out the background.

92Burghound.com

...rich, full and solidly powerful if not particularly deep flavors that possess really lovely intensity and fine finishing energy on the citrus-suffused finale. In sum, this is certainly of very fine quality...

17Jancis Robinson

A touch of sweet oak spice on the nose. Tight, fresh and all in balance though the oak shows through a bit on the finish compared with the weight of fruit.

PRODUCER

Blain-Gagnard

Blain-Gagnard is a 20-acre estate in Chassange. It is owned and operated by Jean-Marc Blain and his wife Claudine Blain Gagnard, whose late father was the much admired vigneron Jacques Gagnard. The domain has Grand Cru parcels in Le Montrachet, Batard-Montrachet and Criots-Batard-Montrachet, and white and red Premier Crus in Chassange-Montrachet. Clive Coates has called the domain “a fine source…Blain’s white wines, like those of the rest of the family, concentrate on the finesse and the fruit are delicate for Chassagnes.”

REGION

France, Burgundy, Côte d'Or, Côte de Beaune, Chassagne-Montrachet, Criots-Batard-Montrachet

Criots-Batard-Montrachet is a 3.87-acre Grand Cru Chardonnay vineyard just to the south of Batard-Montrachet, in the Chassagne-Montrachet appellation of Burgundy. The largest landholders are Roger Belland, 1.5 acres; Charles Bonnefoy, .5 acre; and Richard Fontaine-Gagnard, .7 acre.

TYPE

White Wine, Chardonnay, Grand Cru

This white variety originated in Burgundy, but is now grown around the world. Its flexibility to thrive in many regions translates to wide flavor profile in the market. Chardonnay is commonly used in making Champagne and sparkling wines.