Bienvenue Bâtard Montrachet, Domaine de la Vougeraie 2014

An expressive and highly complex nose of honeysuckle, green apple, pear and citrus notes introduces borderline painfully intense, pure and impressively powerful medium-bodied flavors that possess a caressing mid-palate mouth feel while delivering the same explosively long finish as the Chevalier. This is unusually well-focused, precise and intense for a BBM and one that should also age for years. In a word, terrific.

Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting, Vougeraie's 2014 Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru is also showing some reduction on the nose although beneath that lurks a lot of fruit. The palate is well balanced with a spicy, quite saline entry. There is good presence and body here, and yet the finish does not convey the precision nor the mineralité that I found out of barrel. Let's hope for improvement in bottle. Drink Date 2018 - 2030