Post by Jasper Morris

🚨NEW TASTING REPORT🚨 🥂🍷Exploring the Bâtards: A Double Header🍷🥂 Read the full tasting report via the link in my bio. ‘Two separate visits to Hong Kong (2025 and 2026) included fabulous dinners exploring both Bâtard-Montrachet and Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet across multiple producers and vintages, with one Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet thrown in to season the first of these events. I am quite intrigued by the relationship between Bâtard-Montrachet and Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet, which sometimes seems to me to be similar to that between the more muscular Chambertin and its graceful, if less powerful, sibling, Clos de Bèze. The delimitation of the Bâtard area was still sufficiently imprecise in the early 20th century that various interested parties had hopes of having their land included. Various proposals were made to include significant plots of vineyard in both Puligny and Chassagne under the name of Bâtard. One suggestion was for Grands Crus Bâtard-Montrachet, Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet, Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet and Blanchots-Bâtard-Montrachet, but the final decision of June 1939 confirmed the first three but not the last.’ Read the full tasting report via the link in my bio.