An intense and focused white, exhibiting preserved lemon, peach, apple, butter and pastry aromas and flavors. Turns more linear and racy while evolving to the long, resonant, flinty aftertaste. Though balanced, this should benefit from an additional year or two of aging. Best from 2027 through 2038. - BS

(94-96 points) A vaguely exotic quality is present on the nose of Asian-style spiced jasmine tea, orange peel, carnation, acacia, lilac and all but invisible oak. The middleweight flavors are not quite as concentrated as those of the Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet but they manage to display equally good power and drive while exhibiting superb length and impeccably good balance. This is an elegant Bâtard that is distinctly different texturally than its stablemate.

Ripe, buttery fruit aromas touched with hints of spice, cream and acacia blossoms make a showy first impression. It carries through on the palate with admirable richness and depth of flavour, to a long, complex finish. Yet it's the wine’s finesse and elegance that makes it genuinely outstanding. The domaine farms four parcels in Bâtard, most of it on the Puligny side, including some very old vines that give the wine its characteristic structure and depth.

The 2022 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru is more muscular than the Bienvenues, exhibiting notes of sweet orchard fruit and peach mingled with clear honey, toasted nuts and flowers. Full-bodied, satiny and textural, with good depth and grip, it's more layered and powerful. - William Kelley

The 2022 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru has a very refined bouquet, beautifully delineated, with a little more intensity than the Bienvenue. A touch of wild mint comes through with aeration. The palate has a twist of bitter lemon and is pretty saline on the mid-palate, though maybe the Bienvenue possesses a touch more finesse? It has a lovely texture (again) with a long, peppery aftertaste. Excellent.