2024 Fontaine Gagnard, Chassagne-Montrachet Village Rouge

The 2024 Chassagne-Montrachet Rouge chez Fontaine was raised in twenty percent new oak in this vintage. The wine had shut down a bit after its bottling, but was still showing very nicely, offering up a bright and complex nose of cherries, red plums, cocoa powder, pigeon, woodsmoke and a lovely base of soil. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and well balanced, with a lovely core of juicy red fruit, with good soil undertow, fine balance and lovely length and grip on the nascently complex finish.