Soutard Size:12x750ml A moderately toasty nose combines

A moderately toasty nose combines notes of freshly picked red and dark cherries along with plenty of earth and humus characters

the 2016 Harlan Estate reaches dizzying heights of profound beauty

The middle weight flavors are not as concentrated but they’re finer and more mineralinflected while delivering good length on the bone dry and linear finish

Credit high-elevation grape growing for this tightly wound

I mildly prefer the Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet because of its marginally better sense of verve but I underscore that the difference is slight and it’s obviously an open question as to how the two wines will compare over time – in sum

Soutard Size:12x750ml A moderately toasty nose combinesFirm, strict, hard style of wine that is better on the floral, cherry, thyme and earthy, smoky nose than on the still, tannic, , crisp, palate. It's interesting that although they want to produce a modern, styled wine, this is really more in the old school, classic vein.