Medium

Cork

White

France

All from a parcel of old-vine Chardonnay in Cramant on extremely shallow soils over chalk. Baron de Rothschild winemaker Guillaume Lété displays the house's grand cru Côte des Blancs expertise with a release of brilliant typicity for the terroir, all from the restrained 2021 harvest. Racy, narrow, chalky and exciting, it's nevertheless saturated with flavour ranging from ripe grapefruit, pepper, sweet white pear and jasmine, the intensity of low-yield old vines helping with some greengage juiciness as the wine finds a nimble, sizzling balance with just 2g/l residual sugar. Despite being fermented 100% in small oak, it wears its winemaking lightly. The finest release yet at this address.

Chardonnay

Barons de Rothschild, Le Bateau, Champagne, France, 2021

All from a parcel of old-vine Chardonnay in Cramant on extremely shallow soils over chalk. Baron de Rothschild winemaker Guillau

Barons de Rothschild, Le Bateau, Champagne, France, 2021

Related Wines

Articles