Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru Albert Bichot 2008

Lot presentation

Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru Albert Bichot 2008

The wine

This wine company, founded in 1831, knew how to travel through the centuries and has kept the company within the same family. One of founder’s descendants, Albéric Bichot, has produced the estate’s wine since 1996. Since then, the business has found the spark it had years ago by taking care with its ageing process and the quality of its grapes while also keeping quality consistent.
This Bâtard-Montrachet comes from a plot of land situated below the famous Montrachet, a powerful and mineral Grand Cru. The wines produced from the Bâtard-Montrachet are grown on a slight slope, but they possess a powerfully earthiness and minerality as well as being wonderfully elegant. These are wines that should be carefully stored in the cellar for a few years, allowing the aromas of orange blossom, peach, white flowers, nuts, orange, yuzu and finger lime to develop. These complex wines are like an introduction to the great white wines found throughout Burgundy.

When visiting Maison Albert Bichot, one is naturally inclined toward admiration even before tasting the wines! Mostly, on account of two reasons: the open, direct and humorous personality of Albéric Bichot – whose deep knowledge of Burgundian terroirs and people is remarkable – and the estate’s extraordinary architectural heritage, from its historic working cellars to its grand reception spaces.
Albéric Bichot acquired many plots, meaning that the maison now has 100 hectares of vineyards. Here we find the Clos Frantin and Domaine Château-Gris on the Côte de Nuits, the Domaine du Pavillon and the Domaine Adélie on the Chalonnaise coast as well as the Domaine Long Depaquit in Chablis and Domaine de Rochegrès in Beaujolais. These wines are certified as organic. At the same time, the maison carries out its trading business by purchasing only carefully selected grapes. The wines are all vinified in Beaune under the leadership of the very talented Matthieu Mangenot.
In recent decades, the estate has taken a major step forward with an unwavering commitment to raising quality. Wines from the estates’ vineyards and those from the négociant activity are kept separately, and the approach in both vineyard and cellar is as natural as possible. The grapes are vinified in a state-of-the-art vathouse located in the heart of Beaune. Albéric Bichot has brought renewed drive to the estate, and the results speak for themselves.