Criots Bâtard Montrachet, Henri Boillot 2007

As is typical, this is aromatically quite ripe yet what is not typical is the greater elegance asthis seems unusually refined and admirably pure with an orchard fruit and bee's wax nose that is in perfect keeping with thepowerful, dense and muscled big-bodied flavors that possess remarkable amounts of dry extract that completely buffers thefirm acid spine on the almost painfully intense and stunningly long finish that is absolutely bone dry. A remarkably good Criots that should reward up to a decade of cellar time. 2015+

Boillot's 2007 Criots-Batard-Montrachet smells of Normandy cider, quince, peach, pistachio extract, iris, and narcissus. Wafting and persistent in florality; invigoratingly tinged by the tartness of fruit skin; suffused with chalk and meat stock-like in its marrowy richness, this taps a deep pool of fruit, culminating in a gloriously tenacious finish. I suspect one will be well-rewarded by this for a dozen or more years.