Jean-Marc Pillot, Chassagne Montrachet Macherelles Blanc other_regions_italy up there with Pajzos and

up there with Pajzos and Disznok

A restrained but wideranging nose grudgingly reveals notes of dark cherry

(from vines that average 50+ years of age)

mint and liquorice notes

The clear class of the range and one of those wines with the ‘wow’ factor built to age for decades

Jean-Marc Pillot, Chassagne Montrachet Macherelles Blanc other_regions_italy up there with Pajzos andThis is the first wine to display any appreciable reduction and it is enough to push the underlying fruit to the background. By contrast there is good verve and freshness to the moderately dense flavors that possess almost painful intensity on the lemony, linear and chiseled finale that flashes both first rate depth and length. Its rare for Macherelles to achieve this level of quality color me impressed.