From shallow soils with just 10 to 20 centimeters of topsoil and vines planted at 20,000 per hectare, Lamy’s 2023 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Chaumées delivers notes of freshly baked bread, pear, peach, orange oil and toasted hazelnuts, mingled with white flowers. Medium- to full-bodied, it is deep and enveloping, with a crisp core of fruit, bright acidity and a long, saline finish. Harvested between September 2 and 12, Olivier Lamy has produced another compelling range of wines in 2023, despite below-average rainfall, a hot growing season and localized hail in July. This year, he pursued greater extraction to endow the wines with a more pronounced dry extract, lending them a firmer structure and a heightened sensation of freshness. After all, he is a vigneron who believes that taste matters more than mere analysis.(KK)

The 2023 Chassagne-Montrachet Les Chaumées 1er Cru comes from vines more located on the mother limestone than the Les Marcherelles that will be "Haut-Densitée" in the future. The nose is quite intense: hints of yellow fruit, crushed rock and beeswax coming through with aeration. The palate is well balanced with a fine bead of acidity. A little more horsepower compared to the Les Marcherelles, this displays fine mineralité and a little more spiciness towards the pleasing finish. Superb.