Domaine Ramonet Chassagne Montrachet Rouge 2016

"Aromas of spicy cassis, cherries and dried flowers introduce the 2016 Chassagne-Montrachet Village (Rouge), a medium-bodied wine with a crunchy core of fruit and a light framing of youthfully chewy tannins. Since Domaine Ramonet only presents bottled wines for tasting these days, this was my first look at the 2016 vintage from this important address, a year that saw Chassagne-Montrachet ravaged by frost. Despite the obstacles, Jean-Claude Ramonet has produced a superb set of wines that are impressively consistent, endowed with tangy, incisive acids but also the domaine's characteristic texture and amplitude. The 2017 generic and communal wines, which were already in bottle when I visited in December, are immensely impressive, so I can't wait to return to look at the higher appellations."  - Robert Parker