The 2020 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Embazées offers up aromas of citrus confit, pear, fresh mint, white flowers and warm bread, followed by a medium to full-bodied, ample and lively palate, concluding with a saline finish. This is a fine effort.

The 2018 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Embazées is showing very nicely, exhibiting aromas of pear, orange oil, fresh pastry and toasted nuts, followed by a medium to full-bodied, lively palate that's ripe but precise.

Pretty aromas of honeyed peaches, spices and apples introduce the 2017 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Embazées, a medium to full-bodied, satiny and elegant wine, a supple, open-knit profile and a lovely core of plump but mouthwatering fruit. It had already been bottled when I tasted it in December.

The 2016 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Embazées offers up a rich bouquet of honeyed peaches, pineapples and spices, followed by a medium to full-bodied, fleshy palate with an ample core of fruit, ripe acids and a saline finish that's a touch ephemeral. This premier cru escaped the frost that devastated the rest of Chassagne-Montrachet in 2016, and if the fault of the frosted wines is an excess of concentration, this wine's weakness is a lack of it.

The 2015 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Embazées was showing a little more oak on the nose than the other 2015s from Drouhin at the moment, though it recedes with time and offers attractive hazelnut and nutmeg aromas. The palate is crisp on the entry, harmonious and tensile, with good depth and impressive precision towards the finish, although it just lacks the verve of some of Drouhin's best 2015s this year.