B

10

2006 Marcassin Marcassin Vineyard Chardonnay. Wine charity dinner bought by H&C S, hosted at the house. Drank alongside the 2005 Domaine Leflaive Batard-Montrachet. Both were great. This was oakier, more acidic, and bigger. Great! Table was split as to which they preferred. — 9 years ago

Jonathan Owen

9.4

Opened slowly with air, delicious lemon curd and minerality. Nothing out of place. Great balance of elegance and richness that reminds me of the regular Ramonet Batard from 2010. Great with caramelized shallot tarte, Foie gras, and carrots. — 10 years ago

Aaron Hamrock

9.5

Fantastic Chardonnay. This is similar to a batard Montrachet. There is fruit but you still get the minerality from the wine. The 2010 is still a young wine. — 10 years ago

Nicole Reimers

9.5

Really, really impressed. Richness evokes batard. Happily better than expected. — 11 years ago

web bond

9.1

Batard Montrachet 2011 — 11 years ago

Todd Stone

9.1

A very nice white with a touch of oak but also some fruit Can go with quite a range if foods. A definite find. Had at the new Batard NYC — 11 years ago

with Jason

Tyler Stacy

Sommelier Enotria Wine Bar

9.6

My preference over the batard. Not quite as rich, tad more precise, just as fresh and vibrant. — 12 years ago

B

10

Magnum 2007 Domaine Leflaive Batard Montrachet. Pre-bday lunch at Bot. Definitely glad to drink now- not getting any better. Slightly oxidized, but drink well none the same. Don't wait to drink! — 9 years ago

Mark Oldman

10

Oenomaniacs don't have pearly gates, we have Domaine de la Romanee Conti La Tache 1990. Outrageously sexy, with a celestial perfume of asian spices and underbrush and dried cherry. Eternal finish that tattoos itself on your tongue and palate. Medium to full-bodied, with startling freshness and grip for a quarter-centurion. La Tache 1990 will enthrall for another 30 to 50 years.

Also consumed this night:
Krug Grande Cuvee Champagne
Domaine Leflaive Batard-Montrachet 1996
Henri Jayer Echezeaux 1988
Henri Jayer Vosne-Romanee Cros Parantoux 1988
Henri Jayer Vosne-Romanee Cros Parantoux 1996
Domaine de la Romanee Conti La Tache 1996
Domaine de la Romanee Conti Romanee St. Vivant 1990
Dow Vintage Port 1955

— 10 years ago

Mark Allan

9.4

Wonderful, wonderful vanilla and honey in one - a classic Batard :) — 11 years ago

Paul Albright

9.5

Young, clean and weighty Batard - serious Xmas eve big boy. 2004 Vintage — 11 years ago

Knightsbridge Wine Shoppe

9.4

Great balance of fruit, mineral and acidity. A bit leaner than the Batard. — 11 years ago

Gary Westby

Champagne & Sherry buyer K&L Wines

10

Disgorged in 2005. Many consider '76 a turning point of a vintage. This was the last harvest in Champagne before the new clones came online in force, and a preview of early harvest conditions to come. This bottle was light gold, very Burgundian- nearly Batard like in weight and intensity, but still vivacious and mineral on the long finish. Wow! — 12 years ago

with Cleora

B

10

2006 Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Batard Montrachet. White burgundy course during K charity wine dinner, alongside the '07 Lafon Montrachet. This wine had a little more acidity, pineapple, brioche, and light minerality. Gorgeous wine, but definitely lighter and a touch more acidic than the Lafon. Always great! — 9 years ago

Christian Adams

9.3

White burgundy how i love it. Toasted nuts and citrus. Baby killin you, but after being in a glass for 4 hours, starting to finally open up. Bully Batard-Montrachet Alé Alé — 10 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.7

2000. Huge wow here. No-doubter right off the bat. Next to the 2005 Batard, and I liked this better. Big thwack of sulfur and gunpowder on the nose to go along with lemony fruit and a chicken broth type of savoriness. Richly fruited but crunchy and crystalline on the palate. This keeps reminding me of those sticky lemon drop candies with the sugar crytal coating, sweet succulent concentrated fruit but with a crunch to it. Plenty of bass tones and depth though and it just doesn't quit. This is the vintage the grapes were so perfect they printed a cross-section of one on the back label and it looked like a Mandelbrot fractal. It still manages to depict the wine pretty well. — 10 years ago

Diedra West

9.4

Diedra had this 11 years ago

Herve Rodriguez

10

1978 Leflaive Bienvenues Batard. One word: Phenomenal — 11 years ago

Damien Lehoux

9.8

Talk about monster. Peter Weygandt himself: "should taste this blind against Batard-Montrachet, that'd be interesting!" — 11 years ago

Adrien Signorello

9.7

Batard-Montrachet 1997 — 12 years ago