At an enviable 2ha, the Marquis de Laguiche's holdings are the largest in the Grand Cru and have been put to good use by Véronique Drouhin and her team. This is a superb expression of one of Burgundy's greatest terroirs, with wonderful citrus and stone fruit aromas, some kitchen spices and patisserie, very fine 30% new wood and remarkable palate length. (TA)

An overtly spicy nose possesses really lovely layering with its combination of white peach, lemon rind, jasmine tea, soft oak and pretty floral nuances. Once again there is a strikingly sophisticated texture to the dense and sleekly muscular broad-shouldered flavors that coat the palate with sappy dry extract while buffering the firm acid spine shaping the hugely long finale. As is often the case with the Drouhin Montrachet, this is a big but very classy wine that marries power with refinement. *Don't Miss!*

A fine pale primrose colour. The bouquet shows vanilla and coconut oak but in harness with the intensity of the fruit. There is an all-pervading sense of nobility to this Montrachet. The coconut is quite prevalent though. Warm, welcoming, succulent on the one hand, real tension on the other. The fruit builds significantly so as to overcome the effect of the oak. Little touch of pineapple?