TASTING NOTES

White peach and honeysuckle on the nose but on the palate there is more nerve and tension, the terroir asserting itself. As you work the wine, it shows extra levels of dry extract and minerality, finishing sappy and chewy, asking for a little more time. All the ingredients are here. Drink from 2014.

TASTING NOTES

TASTING NOTES

TASTING NOTES

TASTING NOTES

TASTING NOTES

TASTING NOTES

TASTING NOTES

TASTING NOTES

The aromatics are at the grapefruit end of the citric spectrum. On the palate, the wine feels tender and delicate at first but it builds in the mouth and then shows clear intensity on the finish, giving a real saline burst. Another one that is asking for time.

TASTING NOTES

The set is completed via a virtuoso Chevalier that opens with an exotic array of perfumes, recalling Oriental spices and scents, quite beyond the range of the preceeding wines. You can feel the ripeness in the wine but it has such control over its performance you cannot help but be carried by it as it moves, twists and turns, ever...

TASTING NOTES

TASTING NOTES

There are years where Bâtard can be over-bearing, even bombastic but this is not one of them. Forward and welcoming, it offers exotic notes of star anise, cinnamon and clove, a burst of grapefruit and a confident underlying minerality. There is power here but used carefully, with direction, knowing just how far to go. The resultant wine is civilised and...