Displaying a deep, sweet but unyielding nose, the Montrachet possesses a super-structured, buttery, hyper-ripe (not over-ripe) mouth. A textbook Montrachet, it combines the elegant, minerally aspects of a Chevalier and the fat, lush, almost tropical tones of a Batard in a full-bodied wine with great length. Made for the long haul, it will age beautifully for 20+ years.
This note is the result of tastings I did in Burgundy between January 7 and January 29. Ratings with a range of scores in parentheses indicate the wine was tasted from cask, not bottle.
At Louis Latour the wine making is entrusted to Jean-Pierre Jobard, the brother of Francois and Charles Jobard, two well-known names in Meursault. Jobard commented that the acid in 1995 reminded him of the 1988.
Louis Latour is represented by a different importer in each state.