Domaine / Maison Vincent Girardin Chevalier-Montrachet

Excellent for the vintage. Elegant, fresh and grippy. Beautiful nose with white flower, yellow fruit and honey. Moderate acidity. Enjoy now.

Energetic and fresh. No need to wait, brings all elements to the table now of a good white Burg.

Immediately nose of canned peaches with a hint of pineapple, apricots, and rose water. Taste was the same as the bouquet with adding minerality, walnuts, vanilla, and toasted oak. As it evolved the strong canned peaches smell and taste drifted into the minerality (crushed limestone?). The fruity flavors are a little more delicate now with apricot taking over for the canned peaches. A hint of blood orange now and just a hint of lemon zest. Toastiness is still there but …

Tasting on day two; a point or two off of last night, but still lovely. At peak, this is awesome white burg -- vanilla, stones, quince, and canned peaches. If peaches were canned in the happy tears of angels. The walnut note that silton called out is spot-on and delicious -- not heavy or oxidized whatsoever. Great balance. Long light finish. SRP at $85 is a little rich, but very happy having paid ~half of that.

La Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin (Vancouver) - Summer Luncheon 2013 (Vancouver, BC) : This is was very nice for an 06. Quite precise and energetic with solid acidity. Would never have guessed 06 if this was served blind. Excellent.

In 2006, Domaine Vincent Girardin borrowed some spearmint from Noel Ramonet and stirred it into their Chevalier-Montrachet. It had pure white peach aromas and flavours and was flinty with good precision and freshness. An excellent fresh and detailed 06.

on a root day; pop-n-pour; no past seepage; pale yellow; racy vanilla and citrus based bouquet; subtle minerality, nuts and butter; toasty oak overshadow the palate;good structure and depth in its' context; although too much oak for me but it's an enjoyable wine; good effort!

At Robouchon Macau - very good bottle. Lean, laser-focused, mineraly, like glacier water. Amazing. Complex, rich, but elegant and timeless.

Blind Night (Jock) : Pale yellow color. Aromas of apple and petrol. Tastes of apple with some toasted oak and nice minerality. Well balanced. Rich elegant finish with nice depth of fruit. My guess was white Burgundy. Scott's 1st wine. 13.5% alcohol.

Blind Night at Jock's. This pretty much matches my last note. Delicious!

Pungent minerality, citrus, stones, walnut, oak. Pretty much what you'd expect and hope for at this stage. Drinking pretty well, especially on day 2, but best to hold.

Very light yellowish green in color. Super fresh citrus notes, good minerality and light on the mid-palate with a toasty oak finish. This has a very bright future as I think the oak will integrate very well with the fruit and the acidity definitely gives this wine enough structure lay down for midterm.