2008 Maison Joseph Drouhin Marquis de Laguiche Montrachet Grand Cru
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Nervy concentrated greengage fruit sweetened with honey/honeysuckle. Pure tight mineral in the middle but there is no way you could describe this as lean. It has curves in all the right places and really terrific length. Still very young and primal, I suspect that somewhere around 2018+ it will be perfection. FINE+RARE
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Allen Meadows, Burghound
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The 2008 Montrachet Grand Cru is a vintage that I had not tasted before. Véronique Drouhin commented that the clement harvest weather saved the vintage, but it was a small yield with small berries that were high in acidity. The 2008 is showing beautifully at the moment. It has a fabulous bouquet of honeycomb, yellow flowers, crushed stone and even a touch of gingerbread. The palate conveys an effervescent quality, showing veins of orange peel and mandarin, and less mineralité than the 2009 but a fine saline finish. It improves in the glass, so do not be afraid to decant this. Tasted at the Montrachet vertical in London.
Savoury notes, piercingly crystalline structure. I thought perhaps it was a Leflaive. Bone dry, high acid and clearly very youthful. This was one of the wines that quite a lot of tasters guessed as a white burgundy even if they didn't realise quite how grand it was. (JR)
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Joseph Drouhin is one of the largest and most famous producers in Burgundy, making both domaine and négociant wines. It remains family-owned and run, now in the hands of the fourth generation.