Bouchard Pere & Fils, Montrachet Grand Cru Domaine 2017 (3L)

"The 2017 Montrachet Grand Cru has a slight reduction on the nose, although it is nothing to get too worried about. I think it has exceptional mineralité covered up by its youth. The medium-bodied palate is taut, fresh and quite saline, with a fine bead of acidity and some vanilla-y oak toward the very saline finish, though that will be eaten with bottle age. There is outstanding precision on the aftertaste, and that seems to be accentuated with aeration. I gave this a tepid reaction from barrel, but here in bottle, it received my highest score out of over two hundred 2017s." - Neal Martin

"The bouquet is very fine, again with a light hint of bacon fat. Perhaps the plumpest Montrachet, the most intensity, very good white fruit with more opulent touches. Seductive. Is it as long on the palate as Olivier Leflaive’s?" - Jasper Morris, MW