Benjamin Leroux Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru 'Tete du Clos' 2022

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Benjamin Leroux Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru 'Tete du Clos' 2022Leroux calls Tote du Clos the 'Chevalier Montrachet of the south'. It's one of the many sub climats of Morgeot and lies at the vineyard's apex, where the soil is very rocky. There is barely 20 centimetres of topsoil, with white clay and plenty of limestone on the surface. It? s about the same altitude as Les Embazees, but it showcases an entirely different expression of Chassagne both richer and more mineral (hence the Chevalier reference). Leroux? s

tangy and complex finish

precise and salty-crystalline yet highly refined and even mouth-filling Auslese with utterly balanced finesse yet also tight grip and tension

wonderfully complete Barolo

It has stunning complexity and refined acidity with grapefruit bitters on the mineral finish

James Halliday

Disgorged Dec 2021

The one from the Mino is the 2020 Mundin

and saline with dark cherry fruit - always a very sensual wine

this is staggeringly beautiful

yet with superb balance and class

it's round

a site that does not naturally lend itself to finesse