2010 A. et P. de Villaine Mercurey Les Montots- France, Burgundy, Côte Chalonnaise, Mercurey (5/15/2012)
Engaging aromatics of fresh flowers, cherries and chalk. It is fresh and crunchy in the mouth, loaded with red fruits that are tinged with earth and overlay a mineral base. It has good intensity and balance and whilst delicious now should age for a very long time.
We drank a bottle of the 09 Montots over about four days, and the last glass was by far the best. Drink one or two young, by all means, but I take Villaine seriously when he recommends cellaring this wine for 10 years and more.
That’s interesting; I’ve had some leakage problems with a couple of the 2010s, including Les Montots.
Despite that, the 2010 Les Montots was an excellent bottle and I found some aeration really helped it (though the poor thing didn’t make it to day 2). Really, all of the Villaine Côte Chalonnaise wines I’ve tried are excellent, even without giving them several years to age. (I had a retailer two years ago get in a case of '08 La Fortune, and told me to drink them “within a year.” Maybe I’ll have to have a talk with him!)
Well, that’s good to hear, though I wasn’t complaining too much; the La Fortunes were great young. (Though I admit to liking wines younger than a lot of Berserkers.)