Bienvenue Bâtard Montrachet, Jacques Carillon 2020

The 2020 Bienvenue-Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru has a generous bouquet. It's a little richer than Domaine Jean-Claude Bachelet's BBM. Orange pith commingles with wild peach, crushed limestone and even a faint scent of strawberry. The palate is mineral-driven with a crisp line of acidity. It's mineral-rich with the same sapidity as the aforementioned BBM. Perhaps even more tensile and spicier on the finish, this knockout wine will give 20+ years of drinking pleasure. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting. (Drink between 2027-2052)

Fractionally paler with a clean vanilla oak dominating the nose on the first sniff. Maybe the lightest bacon fat reduction. I think there is some exciting quality here, quite rich ripe apple fruit but a steely tension as well. Fair length, firm, and with plenty more to come.