2009 Bouchard Pere et Files, Chevalier Montrachet, La Cabotte, Grand Cru

This is the first time I use a decanter that’s catered for white wine. The beauty is that, it’s flat enough for me to fit the bottle in the fridge to decant my white. It’s also able to place the decanter vertically in a shallow ice bucket to chill and decant. I decanted this Chevalier Montrachet for 3 hours in the fridge, it really did some great magic to my Grand Cru. The initial first sip was completely shut, with a lack of vibrancy, and a tinge of orange zest from the bouquet as well as the content. For 2009 vintage, it’s a hot vintage, and I worry a lot as normally it will be premox or turned extremely ripe easily (and the dreaded sugar cane taste will surface). But I was lucky enough, it turned out to be a pristine condition bottle. It has so much energy going on, for sure it deserved big attention. The unique oily texture is very much exclusive to Grand Cru white burgundies only, and normally only found in Chevalier Montrachet and Montrachet only. Bear in mind La Cabotte is a really special plot lying just above the Puligny side of Montrachet. The extremely small production really deserves special attention for white burgundy lovers.