Jean Noel Gagnard, Chassagne Montrachet Morgeot Rouge Vintage:2012 Les Crots and Les Chaillots)

Les Crots and Les Chaillots)

Pungent aromas are composed by notes of reduction and wood toast at present

giving the wine the right amount of freshness and sweetness to make it fun to taste today

I would describe this as a success for the vintage

dark fruit to support another two decades of very fine drinking

Jean Noel Gagnard, Chassagne Montrachet Morgeot Rouge Vintage:2012 Les Crots and Les Chaillots)(from Clos Chareau and Grand Clos). A more deeply pitched and slightly riper nose features notes of red cherry, spice, freshly ground pepper and more earth influence. There is better size, weight and richness if not the same refinement to the solidly powerful, more austere and slightly rustic finale. Note that this is firm enough to repay up to a decade of keeping.