2000 | Domaine Ramonet | Chassagne Montrachet Les Ruchottes

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White Wine: 2000 | Domaine Ramonet | Chassagne Montrachet Les Ruchottes

Medium to full-bodied and broad, it coats the palate with raspberries, smoky pears, apples, and minerals.

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Producer: Domaine Ramonet

Ratings: WA | 92 AM | 91

Vintage: 2000

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Chardonnay

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

Medium to full-bodied and broad, it coats the palate with raspberries, smoky pears, apples, and minerals.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The toasted mineral-scented 2000 Chassagne-Montrachet Les Ruchottes is an outstanding wine. Medium to full-bodied and broad, it coats the palate with raspberries, smoky pears, apples, and minerals. Broad, satin-textured, and persistent in the finish, this is a gorgeous, lush wine.

• Allen Meadows: Subtly musky, rather cool aromas of minerals, flowers, mint and smoke. Rich, broad and mouthfilling yet still rather closed and unforthcoming. Very dry flavors of lime and flowers. Best today on the back end, which shows sneaky persistence and a lovely floral aspect.

Producer Information

Domaine Ramonet is a prominent wine producer in the Burgundy appellations of Chassagne-Montrachet and Puligny-Montrachet. The estate’s most important wines are made from Chardonnay from the area’s grand cru vineyards, and are highly collectible, often selling for high prices at auction. Domaine Ramonet makes several red wines from Pinot Noir as well. Pierre Ramonet began buying land on the Montrachet hill in the 1930s and, by the 1950s, owned land in several premier and grand cru vineyards. In the 1970s, he acquired a piece of the famed Le Montrachet site, and now Ramonet owns more than 15 hectares (37 acres) of vineyards, making wines ranging from village-level to grand and premier cru. The domaine has holdings in Btard-Montrachet (0.6 hectares/1.5 acres), Bienvenues-Btard-Montrachet (0.4 hectares/one acre), Chevalier-Montrachet (a tiny 0.1 hectares/0.2 acres) and Le Montrachet (0.2 hectares/0.5 acres) grand crus Old vines and low yields are the cornerstones of Ramonet’s viticultural philosophy, and vines younger than 18 years are not used in the top cuves. After traditional fermentation, the white wines are kept on lees for an extended period, with battonage happening much less frequently than usual. Both red and white wines are aged in 33 percent new oak. Red vines are primarily held in Chassagne with just over 1.4 hectares (3.4 acres) held across the La Boudriotte, Morgeot and Clos Saint-Jean premier crus. The domaine has another 1.8 hectares (4.4 acres) of Pinot Noir in village-level plots. Domaine Ramonet is now run by Nol and Jean-Claude Ramonet, following the death of their father Pierre in the mid-1990s. The domaine continues to make some of Montrachet’s most highly regarded wines.