Paul Pillot Chassagne Montrachet Clos St Jean 1er Cru 2020 (750ML)

92-94 WA / 92-94 JM / 92-94 VM / 91-94 BH

The 2020 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Clos Saint-Jean wafts from the glass with scents of pear, orange oil, white flowers and freshly baked bread. Medium to full-bodied, layered and seamless, with a taut core of fruit, chalky structuring extract and lively acids, it concludes with a saline finish.—William Kelley, The Wine Advocate

Lemon and lime, a little mote tension and less evidently sunny than Champgains, lovely plush lemon and plum fruit, generous and easy-going. Tasted: November 2021.—Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy

Tasting note: This is also markedly floral with additional notes of various white orchard fruit aromas, especially apple, as well as hints of lemon and tangerine. The sleek, intense and equally delicious medium weight flavors possess plenty of sappy dry extract while exhibiting very fine length on the youthfully austere and impeccably well-balanced finale. CSJ is almost always more interesting in red but like the Champ Gains, this is really lovely. Oustanding. Allen Meadows, Burghound