Tasted blind, the 2015 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Morgeot Marquis de Laguiche performed brilliantly, revealing a lovely bouquet of white flowers, ripe pear and hazelnut cream. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, glossy and textural, with considerable concentration and chewy extract underpinned by bright, tangy acids that lend excellent delineation to the long, pure finish. It's a terrific Morgeot that would embarrass many grands crus in this vintage.

Bright pale yellow with a green tinge. Very ripe aromas of peach, vanilla and nuts lifted by a note of orange peel. Fat and sweet but with firm acidity that will need more élevage as well as some barrel age to harmonize with the wine's stone fruit and spice flavors. The wine's orange peel element is accompanied by a salty quality on the long, almost Chablis-like finish. A distinct step up in flavor intensity and salinity from the Folatières. This is aging in about one-third new oak.

The 2015 Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru Morgeot Marquis de Laguiche has a tightly-wound, oyster-shell tinged bouquet that seemed a little timid following the 2015 Beaune Clos des Mouches Blanc. The palate is very well balanced with a touch of praline on the entry, quite tensile with an edgy, fresh lime and sliced pear note on the finish. This is showing good potential and the aromatics will have awoken by the time it is bottle.

Sample. Stony nose and excellent acidity. Now this seems to have considerably more tension and potential than most Drouhin 2015 whites. Long. (JR)