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Chevalier Montrachet la Cabotte 2007

Chevalier Montrachet / Bouchard Pere & Fils

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After one year in bottle, if anything the '07 version is ever-so-slightly better than I originally foresaw with its ultra elegant nose of green apple, white flower, anise, clove and wet stone trimmed in a bit of oak toast nose as it merges seamlessly into rather muscular and notably powerful big-bodied flavors that are rich, full and sappy while delivering a concentrated, explosive and hugely long finish. This isn't quite as fleshy and concentrated as its '08 counterpart but it's even more refined, detailed and precise. A qualitative choice.

Score: 96

Allen Meadows, Burghound Maturity: 2018+ 01 October 2010

Reflecting a terrace adjacent to Le Montrachet (one of four Bouchard terraces that collectively constitute around one third of this great cru) the 2007 Chevalier-Montrachet La Cabotte offers a floral bouquet as ravishing as that of its <> Chevalier-Montrachet counterpart. Here the scents range from iris through orange blossom, and including that of the flowering vines themselves. This is even more penetrating yet also more rarified than its immediate sibling, with the high-toned floral notes again carrying along with citrus oils all the way into the finish, here characterized by transparency to and a dynamically shimmering interchange with saline, stony, and savory crustacean mineral elements. A hint of white pepper adds invigoration to the litany of luscious fruit and intriguing mineral characteristics of this subtly creamy-textured, uncannily buoyant expression of a great site which – although Bouchard has appealed to the authorities in past for a reclassification as Montrachet – strikes me as distinctively Chevalier in personality, or perhaps in this vintage like a cross between Montrachet and Les Preuses! I both hope and anticipate that this will be worth following for well more than a decade, but anyone lucky enough to acquire some would be crazy not to begin enjoying it young.

Score: 96

David Schildknecht, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 01 December 2009