2020 Bernard Moreau - Chassagne-Montrachet La Cardeuse 1er Cru
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The 2020 Chassagne-Montrachet La Cardeuse 1er Cru offers darker fruit than its peers, mainly blackberry, bilberry, light sea spray scents and a touch of orange rind. It gains complexity in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with saturated tannins, fleshy with a fine bead of acidity and tobacco-laced black fruit with pencil shavings towards the Médoc-like finish. It's a bit "serious" at the moment, but it may well come good with bottle age. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.
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The 2020 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru La Cardeuse opens in the glass with scents of peonies, violets, plums, wild berries, dark chocolate and baking spices. Medium to full-bodied, lively and perfumed, it's bright and fine-boned, with a pretty core of fruit and fine, powdery tannins.
The 2020 Chassagne-Montrachet La Cardeuse 1er Cru offers bold blackberry and black plum aromas on the nose, the 50-60% whole cluster neatly integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy black fruit, quite rigid at first, very saline with a slightly chalky-textured finish that lends freshness. Excellent.