This is an excellent vintage for Benoît and Jean-Baptiste Bachelet, whose wines seem to go from strength to strength. The style here is textural and concentrated but reliably controlled by succulent balancing acids—perhaps best briefly characterized simply as classically balanced—with the brothers picking in a timely fashion but eschewing extremes. The grapes are sometimes but not systematically crushed before pressing, followed by overnight settling and fermentation in wood—both barrels and demi-muids—with occasional bâtonnage until conclusion of malolactic fermentation. The wines see two winters on the lees before bottling. The results are routinely superb, and readers unfamiliar with this disarmingly discrete Saint-Aubin domaine are warmly encouraged to seek out their wines.
Jean-Claude Bachelet Bourgogne Blanc
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