Pernot/Paul Bâtard-Montrachet 2020

93+ points William Kelley (Wine Advocate): “The 2020 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru is a rich and muscular wine evocative of orange oil, buttered toast, peach, confit citrus and baking spices. Full-bodied, layered and textural, with lively acids and chalky structuring extract, this has turned out very well and looks likely to equal or surpass the 2017 and 2019 renditions. Drink: 2023-2040. (Jan 2022)”

92 points Jasper Morris, MW: “From the Chassagne side, which Michel Pernot thinks tends to produce the heavier wines. This certainly has power, a little bit less come hither than the Bâtard, with a little meatiness. It seems a bit more powerful in alcohol, has the same toast as the Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet, finishing with a suggestion of eau de vie de poire. On the chunky side. Tasted: October 2021. (Dec 2021)”

Bill Nanson (Burgundy Report): “(A large plot was replanted after the frost of 2016. Vines in both Puligny and Chassagne – ‘our only one in Chassagne – but due to the replanting it’s currently just the Puligny that’s in this wine.’) Here is easily the most powerful nose. Mouth-filling, a very mineral style, there’s density without being ‘dense’ a wine that slowly, slowly melts over the palate. Michel doesn’t like to wait too long to drink his wines – even a grand cru like this he thinks will be great in a couple of years but he’d be most happy to drink it after 4-6 years. (Nov 2021)”