The 2023 Montmains from Guillaume Michel is utterly classic in personality and proportions this year. The beautiful bouquet offers up a complex blend of lemon, tart pear, wet stone minerality, a bit of chalk dust and a topnote of dried flowers. On the palate the wine is crisp, full-bodied, long and complex, with a lovely core of fruit, fine detail, lovely balance and a long, mineral-driven and precise finish.
92 points, John Gilman, View From the Cellar (Feb 2025)
Michel’s 2023 Chablis 1er Cru Montmain, bottled in November 2024, derives from southeast-facing vines growing in clay-rich soils that tend to bring roundness. Wafting from the glass with aromas of acacia, green apple, lemon zest and honeysuckle, it’s medium-bodied, bright and lively, with good focus and immediate charm.
91 points, Kristaps Karklins, Wine Advocate (Mar 2025)
Pale lemon yellow. The bouquet has the charm of a more mature Chablis. It is not that this is evolved but it has opened out delightfully at a young age. Apples with a marine rinse. A little yellow fruit on the palate, controlled flesh and very good length.
91 points, Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy (Jun 2025)
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