Bourgogne Blanc, Ballot-Millot

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So delicious.  A generous, creamy, textural White Burgundy…..that you might easily take to be a Meursault or Chassagne – indeed my personal score for this wine (leaving out any value for money component) for this wine was higher than my scores for a brace of village Chassagne Montrachets and one village Meursault.  Lightly smokey-gunflinty-nutty on the nose, then refreshing and bright – which would have already been ‘enough’ for a Bourgogne Blanc, but then as it sits in the mouth you realise it has considerable weight, creamy texture and ‘vinosity’, followed by sweetly nutty oak and vanilla popcorn.  I would love to try this alongside Leflaive’s (very expensive) Bourgogne Blanc…according to my last recollection of it, this Ballot wine tastes better and more charming.  Under Diam closure, so I suppose it could be aged, but why would you – it’s such a great drink now.  This was the only bottle we finished on Saturday night.