Vincent Girardin, Chevalier Montrachet Grand Cru 2018

"Open and charming, the 2018 Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru bursts from the glass with notes of pear, orange oil, white flowers, fresh apricot and buttered toast. Full-bodied, layered and fleshy, it's bright and lively, with a giving, demonstrative profile and a saline finish." - Wine Advocate

"This is also quite restrained and requires aggressive swirling to coax the aromas of essence of pear, white flowers, spice, jasmine tea and citrus zest nuances to reveal themselves. There is very good volume, power and delineation to the focused, intense and palate coating large-scaled flavors that brim with both minerality and dry extract before concluding in a lemony and bone-dry finale that is present quite compact. Like several wines in the range this needs to develop better overall depth but based on the quality of the underlying material, it shouldn't have any real difficulty with that." - Allen Meadows