Domaine Faiveley, Bienvenues Batard Montrachet Vintage:2011 minerals and toasty lees

minerals and toasty lees

A somber nose half-heartedly offers up notes of forest floor

Suitably rustic and dense in structure

Look for four decades or more of luxuriant satisfaction

offering densely packed black/blue fruit

Domaine Faiveley, Bienvenues Batard Montrachet Vintage:2011 minerals and toasty leesHere too moderate wood is present on the aromas of honeysuckle, lemon confit and a vague hint of the exotic. The rich, dense and larger bodied flavors possess a highly seductive mouthfeel that contrasts noticeably with the youthfully austere and intensely citrus inflected finish that is presently a bit short. I suspect that once this is bottled that it will better harmonize as its somewhat awkward today.