The 2019 Batard-Montrachet Grand Cru offers up aromas of pear, orange oil, warm bread, white flowers and praline. Full-bodied, textural and muscular, it's rich and powerful, with a deep and fleshy core, succulent acids and a long, resonant finish. This broad-shouldered, gastronomic Batard will be at its best with a bit of bottle age.

The 2017 Batard-Montrachet Grand Cru is very promising, unfolding in the glass with aromas of lemon oil, grapefruit, mandarin, crisp green apples and white flowers. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, elegantly textural and beautifully pure, with bright acids, a tight-knit core and a long, detailed finish. The Batard saw no new oak this year, and it's all the more integrated and classy for it.

The 2016 Batard Montrachet Grand Cru was touched by the frost and reduced by 25% in quantity, not as acute as others because they believe the vines were offered protection by the stone wall at the bottom of Montrachet. That equates to a barrel and a half, and it was still in barrel with racking due when I dropped by. It has a lively and generous aniseed-tinged bouquet that opens superbly with aeration. The palate is quite rich on the entry with a slightly honeyed texture. It is marked by a fine thread of acidity, just a dab of ginger and spice toward the finish that bristles with energy, furnished with a long and pure spicy aftertaste that leaves the mouth tingling. This is an excellent Batard-Montrachet that should give 15-20 years of drinking pleasure.

The 2015 Batard-Montrachet Grand Cru, which has just been racked, was unsurprisingly a little muted on the nose. The palate is elegant and understated, very well balanced, though I wonder whether it will develop the tension and mineral drive of its Premier Cru "underlings" (the Les Referts and Folatières). At least afford this 3-4 years in bottle and I am sure this Batard will come round and become a worthy follow-up to the stupendous 2014.

Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting, the 2014 Batard-Montrachet Grand Cru from Bachelet-Monnot has a clean and precise bouquet: cold stone/flint, hints of apple blossom and a subtle marine influence that becomes more prominent with aeration. The palate is very well balanced with a fine bead of acidity. This feels harmonious and very poised, displaying just a minor reduction but persistence on the finish, that salty tang of oyster shell lingering in the mouth. However, with aeration it seems to lose a bit of its initial precision and mineralité, especially on the finish. That said, this is still rockin' good Batard-Montrachet.