The Fontaine family’s Vergers has turned out beautifully in the 2013 vintage, as the wine offers up a bright and very classic bouquet of pear, apple, lemon, complex, chalky soil tones, citrus zest and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and nicely reserved in personality, with a rock solid core, outstanding soil signature, fine cut and nascent complexity and a very long, racy and perfectly focused finish. This is a dynamite bottle of Chassagne premier cru!

Here too there is a hint of matchstick on the smoke-suffused nose that is comprised primarily by notes of lemon rind, rose petal, petrol and a hint of resin. There is outstanding richness to the full-bodied and generous proportioned flavors that possess admirably good mid-palate concentration before terminating in a powerful, textured, complex and impressively long finale. This is excellent and worth a look.

The 2013 Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru les Vergers has a very generous, almost tropical-tinged bouquet: guava, dried mango, hints of grilled almond and brioche soaring from the glass. The palate is rounded in the mouth with notes of orange sorbet and peach. Fortunately, any blowsiness is avoided with a keen thread of acidity that keeps this lovely Les Vergers focused and tensile. This is worth seeking out.- NM