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right, light yellow. Ripe yellow peach and herbs along with a cooler menthol note on the nose. Fat and slightly spicy on the palate, offering good breadth to its stone fruit flavors. This, too, is freshened by a good quantity of CO2 but is essentially a plump wine. A step up in concentration and depth from the Chassagne-Montrachet Clos Saint-Jean, with a bit more salinity and energy coming through today. And more tactile on the back end.

Here there is only a whisper of reduction and much more easily allows the softly exotic white orchard fruit, spice and white floral notes to be evaluated. The textured, rich and very rounded flavors possess slightly better zip on the moderately dry and persistent finish.