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2023 Domaine Michel Niellon Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru

2023 Domaine Michel Niellon Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru

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Decanter

Reviewed January 2025
Chevalier-Montrachet 2023 from Domaine Michel Niellon is among the luminous successes of the vintage. The initial restraint on the nose gives way on the palate to aromas of ripe pear and quince with a hint of marzipan and fresh white flowers. The texture is generous, almost voluptuous, but there is a balance and elegance that hint at its noble origins. The grapes are from 0.22ha of 60-year-old vines at the base of the slope near the Leflaive parcel. Ideally, one would wait 10 years for this wine to show its full potential.(CC)
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Vinous

Review Date: 01/2025
The 2023 Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru has an intense bouquet with crushed limestone, slightly more malic than Niellon's Chassagnes. A touch of nuttiness develops with aeration. There is a pleasing strictness here. The palate is well-balanced with a fine bead of acidity, taut and fresh. There is a little CO2 in the barrel sample, yet the energy is palpable on the finish, and it feels long and sustained in the mouth.(NM)

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Burghound

Review Date: 06/2025
Note: from a .23 ha parcel of vines planted in '62 and '68. Once again there is a smoky whiff on the pretty, cooler and much more complex nose of wonderfully spicy pear and apple scents that are liberally laced with citrus and petrol nuances. The sleek, intense and more concentrated markedly mineral-driven flavors terminate in a chiseled, youthfully austere and bitter lemon-inflected finale that just goes on and on. This is a powerful but impeccably well-balanced Chevalier that should easily reward a decade plus of cellaring. In a word, terrific.*Burghound Don't Miss!*

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Jasper Morris

Review Date: 01/2025
Planted in 1963 Lucie thinks. A bit degenerate, so lots of millerand. Picked at the start. Just as pale in colour, however the nose has more character showing the white limestone soil. Very linear, a classic Chevalier in the mouth, with warmth and energy to finish, but this is like licking the rock itself, more than eating the fruit. Quite tightly wound, so well worth longer keeping. Drink from 2030-2038. Tasted Oct 2024.

Notes

Bill Nanson Burgundy Report: "The only parcel of the domaine in Puligny, just below some of the vines of Bouchard, both sides of this parcel are owned by Leflaives – but different ones – and below is Laguiche in Montrachet. One could say ‘well-placed.’ A gift of marriage for Lucie’s great-great grandmother – a nice gift ?? Here the only one with cork – ‘the most expensive.’ More scale and freshness – not so deep, but who needs that with such perfume! Cool, large-scaled wine, with a tiny cushion to its texture, always mouth-watering, the result a many-sided complexity and of such breadth too – holding these flavours so persistently in this finish. Potentially a great wine…"(09/2024)

Details

TypeWhite Wine
VarietalChardonnay
OriginChassagne Montrachet, Burgundy, France
Bottle Size750 mL
SKU1929012