Benjamin Leroux Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Baudines 2022 750ml

The 3.6-hectare Les Baudines vineyard sits up high on the slope, near the tree line on the southwestern border of Chassagne. It’s essentially a continuation of Les Embazées but sits higher on the hillside, on poorer soil, with a higher limestone content. It’s a very cool site with primarily white, rocky clay soils—a terroir perfectly aligned with Leroux’s desire to produce fine-boned, chiselled Chassagne. The 2022 has more flesh and opulence than usual, but it remains a superb, mineral example of the terroir. Leroux’s vines were planted in the 1980s. One-third new oak this year.

“This has just been racked to a small tank to keep on the lees. Pale lemon colour. This has the piercing stony quality that I associate with Baudines, with a lemon rinse, a refined and linear Chassagne.” 90-93 points, Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy