The 2022 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru has slightly more complexity and mineralité on the nose than the Bienvenue. It’s sprightly and focused, with a hint of sea spray coming through with time. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tension and a very slight reduction that lends tension, counterbalancing the creamy finish. Excellent.

Deep and muscular, the 2022 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru reveals notes of pear, sweet stone fruit, fresh mint, buttered toast and hazelnuts, followed by a full-bodied, rich and layered palate that's deep and concentrated, its sweet core of fruit girdled by lively acids.

0.35 ha (0.86 acre). Cask sample. Mid-pale lemon. Citrus, apple, with touch of vanilla and baking spice on the nose. Volume, mass and flesh on the palate. Toasty wood too. Broad and deep with no excess fat. Powerful and forceful. Fresh acidity holding the edges. (MH)

Cask sample. Creamy fruit and density – without fat. Green-fruit flavours but still very embryonic. Very persistent and promising but not to be drunk for some time, ideally. (JR)