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Neal Martin

Vinous

The 2019 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru conveys much more terroir expression on the nose, offering chalk dust and wet limestone aromas; great intensity here. The taut, fresh palate is very well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, a mineral-driven finish and commendable persistence. This is a step above the Bienvenues this year and it should age with style. Bon vin! 10/2020

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William Kelley

Robert Parker/Wine Advocate

Rich and muscular, the 2019 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru exhibits aromas of pear, citrus zest, toasted nuts, honeycomb and white flowers. Full-bodied, broad and powerful, with lively acids and an ample core of ripe fruit, it's the most dramatic wine in the range. If it can pick up some additional tension during a second winter on the lees, my score will seem conservative. Jérôme Flous told me that Faiveley began picking on September 9, finishing by the 20th, and that yields averaged out at around 35 hectoliters per hectare in white and a little less in red. Comparing the 2019 vintage to "a more concentrated version of 2010," he admires—as I do—its vibrant fruit tones and refined tannins, finding it more elegant than 2018. The quality of the red wines chez Faiveley is old news, and for more information on this firm's evolution I direct readers to my report published in the August 2020 Week 1 issue of The Wine Advocate. It's worth underlining, however, how good the whites are these days: Flous tells me that he now includes fûts from Damy and Chassin in the white wine barrel program, and in the last few vintages, I've found the wines' new oak component better and better integrated. 01/2021

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Inside Burgundy

Jasper Morris

If anything, the Bâtard has the fresher colour of the two, or perhaps less yellow, but the nose is softer and creamier. Less in the fruit register, more powerful, even though these are the same rows of vines as the Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet, just slightly up the slope! More stones here, so the soil drains better. The fruit is agreeably lifted on the palate, ultimately the more classic, the more stylish of the two. A wine for greater reflection over a long period. Impressive. Tasted Nov 2020.