Burgundy’s 2022 Surprise
By: Bruce Sanderson / October 2024 Issue
Louis Latour rounds out the classic-scoring 2022s with the creamy-textured Montrachet (95, $1,290), which reveals grandeur with its flavors of peach, hazelnut and white flowers, and the opulent Puligny-Montrachet Les Referts (95, $240), featuring peach, apple tart, lemon cake, praline, butterscotch and mineral notes.
“We find our whites to be fresh, well-structured and powerful—as powerful as the 2018s,” says Maison Louis Latour president Eléonore Latour. “We feel that they benefited from the maturity that a particularly hot summer brings while retaining the balance of acidity and ripeness that is the hallmark of great Burgundy vintages. The key for us was not to rush—we changed our plans last minute and delayed the start of harvest by one week, to Aug. 26. That extra week was pivotal in getting us to the maturity we were looking for. The grapes were pressed only after they had enough time to cool down, especially for the ones harvested later in the day, and we limited the aging time in our oak barrels to eight to 10 months to preserve the freshness and crispness of the vintage.”
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