2021 Marc Morey Batard Montrachet Grand Cru

The house style sits somewhere in the middle between the highly reductive, super flinty wines and old school richer and rounder style. Sabine strives for her wines to be enjoyable on release but also able to cellar for years, and her focus is to preserve freshness and express the underlying terroir of each parcel. The whites are matured in 228 liter barrique for 10 months (20-30% of which is new), and stirred once a week between alcoholic fermentation and malolactic fermentation to develop texture and concentrate flavors. As for reds, they have a significant portion of whole cluster stem inclusion for freshness and more perfumed aromatics and lean towards the lighter and prettier style of red Burgundy. These are classically styled Burgundies that will please all palates, and the price points for wines of this quality, both in winemaking and terroir is outstanding. Domaine Marc Morey's wines sell so quickly we never get the chance to offer them, but thanks to a healthy allocation we are especially excited to share them with you.

93 Points from Allen Meadows of Burghound: "A highly restrained nose reluctantly displays notes of airy and again quite cool citrus, apple and pear-suffused aromas where a plethora of spice elements remain in the background. There is excellent delineation and reasonable richness to the tension-filled, racy and textured broad-shouldered flavors that culminate in a focused, textured and almost painfully intense finale. This compact effort possesses unusually good density for such young vines and should reward extended keeping."