What is the difference in taste between a Puligny Montrachet and a Chassange Montrachet?

Answer 1

GREAT question. Fact is, the difference between the wines made in the two neighboring villages of Montrachet is almost imperceptible; the difference between producers and vintages is much more meaningful. In general, due to slightly different clay/limestone composition in their soil, Puligny's tend to have limestone and mineral flavors and Chassagnes tend to be softer, but different producer styles can easily override those characteristics, especially with their use of oak. I don't know anyone who could taste a wine blind and consistently guess which is which, without at least knowing the winemaker beforehand (i.e., Ramonet has a somewhat distinctive style).

Batard-Montrachet is, for me, is the most identifiable for its heavier, creamier texture and vanilla components, which California winemakers weakly try to mimic using MaloLactic fermentation.

Answer 2

Very little. Same Chardonnay grape, same area, different vineyards. The effect of the winemaker will make more difference, and there is as likely to be as much difference betewen two Puligny-Montrachets or two Chassagne-Montrachets from different wineries, as flavors will be affected by age of vines as well as soil.

It is said that generally Puligny-Montrachet to have more finesse than Chassagne's.

(PS - why on earth do people copy and paste huge chucks from Wikipedia including 'this is a stub' that doesn't even answer the question?)

Answer 3

Montrachet is a type of white wine, coming from the region of Montrachet, just to the south of the city of Beaune in Côte-d'Or, in the Burgundy région of central-eastern France.

There are several different types of Montrachet wine, all coming from neighboring villages in the same region:

Puligny Montrachet
Chassagne-Montrachet
Meursault Montrachet
Chevalier-Montrachet
The village of Puligny-Montrachet contains two of Burgundy's six white wine Grand Crus in their entirety, Chevalier-Montrachet and Bienvenues-Batard-Montrachet in part, and sections of Batard-Montrachet and Le Montrachet. Only Corton-Charlemagne and Criots-Batard-Montrachet do not lie in Puligny Montrachet.

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Montrachet has two meanings. The first one is the collection of 5 Grand Cru plots situated on the premises of the communes Puligny-Montrachet (about 96% of the whole surface) and Chassagne-Montrachet (the remaining 4%). The other definition is the name of one of these 5 Grand Crus, the remaining 4 being Chevalier-Montrachet, Batard-Montrachet, Bienvenues-Batard-Montrachet and Criots-Batard-Montrachet. The first 4 Grand Crus are situated fully in Puligny-Montrachet, the latter Grand Cru is situated for 1/3 in the commune of Chassagne-Montrachet.

Only the Chardonnay grape (a white grape variety) can legally be planted on the Montrachet.

Montrachet wines are very expensive with prices ranging from 55 EUR to 1800 EUR per 75cl bottle. The price depends on the combination of the Grand Cru (Montrachet is typically more expensive than the other 4) and the producer of parts of the plot (e.g. there are over 10 wine growers on the Montrachet).

Producing as little as 200.000 bottles (over the 5 Grand Crus) of wine per year, the supply is very limited.

Answer 4

differente origin of grapes from the French region of Montrachet.