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2022 Bourgogne Blanc, Clos-du-Château, Domaine de Montille
- White
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- Chardonnay
Ready - at best
(Drink 2023 - 2026)
- Neal Martin
- 84-86/100
- Jasper Morris MW
- 87-90/100
Product: 20228012876
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Description
The vines for this wine are within the walls of the Château de Puligny-Montrachet. This is in essence a baby Puligny, and the ideal “house” white Burgundy. The silty clay soil is perfect for the warm, dry vintages that are now de rigueur, retaining water and giving a wine of grace, elegance and perfume. This has creamy citrus fruit, subtle floral notes and a lifted, precise finish.
Berry Bros. & Rudd
Colour White
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2022
Alcohol % 12.5%
Maturity Ready - at best
(2023 - 2026)
Grape List Chardonnay
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Domaine de Montille
Critics reviews
Neal Martin 84-86/100
The 2022 Bourgogne Le Clos du Château is mainly from the clos in front of the Château du Puligny-Montrachet. The fresh nose has more vitality and tension than the Bourgogne Blanc with touches of lime and lemon zest. The palate has more weight than the Bourgogne Blanc and is certainly a tad spicier, with a tang of ginger on the aftertaste.
“We had an uneventful 2022,” head winemaker Brian Sieve explains in their barrel cellar in Meursault. “We didn’t have any employee or tractor problems. The “noise” you have during a vintage didn’t happen. The biggest problem was finding good wood to prune after the frosts in 2021, which was early in the season. We had quite a bit of rain in June to sustain us through the dry periods, especially on the limestone soils. The Côte de Nuits, particularly Clos de Vougeot, seem to get more rain than the Côte de Beaune, 40mm there compared to 10mm down here. I believe the anti-hail canons in the Côte de Beaune ‘push’ the storms northwards. Marsannay and Gevrey get heaps of rain. You get more stress on more calcareous soils that are porous but free-draining. We had no heatwave or ‘canicule’ when the vines shut down. It was a warm season, but the stats are skewed because of the hot temperatures in February and March. It wasn’t like 2018 when maturity was advanced and progressing very fast.
In 2022, the maturity came slower. We started with the kosher wines on August 26 and finished around September 8. We cropped at around 45hL/ha for the reds. The whole cluster percentages were based on whether it fitted into the vats. The wines underwent one extraction per day, pigeage rather than pumping over, which is just done at the beginning, whereas in his day, Hubert de Montille was doing three or four. Extraction happens by itself more than it used to. We found that we had very high-quality lees in 2022.”
Drink 2024 - 2028
Jasper Morris MW 87-90/100
Pale lemon yellow. This is markedly more refined, the smallest fraction of beneficial reduction on top of a very elegant floral bouquet. Super smooth texture yet refreshed by adequate acidity.
Drink 2025 - 2028
About this wine
Bourgogne
In the Burgundy hierarchy, “Bourgogne” denotes the entry level of the classification system. This is a so-called “regional” appellation, theoretically covering the entire vineyard area of Burgundy. This is distinct from the more geographically precise village-level, Premier Cru and Grand Cru designations. The two most common Bourgogne-level wines are Bourgogne Blanc (“White Burgundy”) and Bourgogne Rouge (“Red Burgundy”).