Criots Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru, Domaine Fontaine-Gagnard, 2024
Criots Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru, Domaine Fontaine-Gagnard, 2024
- 75cl
- White Still
- Chardonnay
- Organic
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Fontaine-Gagnard is one of Chassagne’s great traditionalists, quietly producing some of the appellation’s most complete and age-worthy wines. Farming is resolutely old-school rather than dogmatic, with a focus on balance, density and longevity over fashion. In 2024, that restraint mattered.
The vintage was hard work. High mildew pressure, early harvest beginning on 22 August, and naturally low yields around 35 hl/ha for whites and 30 for reds. A hot August pushed ripeness quickly, but September brought dilution and freshness back into play, finishing around pH 3.3–3.4. The result is a vintage of crunchy acidity, dense fruit and classical proportions, more ripe than 2013, closer in spirit to 2010, though Burgundy has changed too much for lazy comparisons. Oak remains measured at around 20% for village wines and 30% for premiers and grands crus.
Domaine Fontaine-Gagnard is one of Tim Atkin's Top 10 Côte de Beaune White Wine Producers.
What the critics say:
"The 2024 Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru has a delightful bouquet with crushed stone infusing the bright citrus fruit, tightly coiled but opening with time in the glass. The palate is well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, quite saline in the mouth with oyster shell on the weighty finish. There is real weight and presence here. No wonder it has the highest sugar level among all the Domaine's cuvées - the power is palpable in this Criots. "
"Céline said this had plenty of malic, and even after malolactic fermentation, this remains punchy with firm, high-voltage acidity. There is plenty of beautifully ripe, lusty fruit to absorb the vibrant flavors of star fruit, loquat, Seckel pear, wet stones and warm hay. The sustained, creamy finish weaves in light marine influences. Wait at least seven to eight years before uncorking this beauty."
