Denis Bachelet, Cote de Nuits Villages, 2023 SPAINCOUNT0125 Haut-Batailley has undergone a quiet

Haut-Batailley has undergone a quiet revolution: new cellar

the rest in stainless

who have quietly been refining their Chardonnay for decades

and hints of iodine

but the soil here is finer and more broken-up

Denis Bachelet, Cote de Nuits Villages, 2023 SPAINCOUNT0125 Haut-Batailley has undergone a quietDenis Bachelet's domaine runs to about four hectares, worked essentially single handed since 1983, and demand for his Gevrey bottlings long ago outstripped supply this Cote de Nuits Villages is the sane way into his cellar. The fruit comes mostly from Queue de Hareng, or "herring's tail," with the rest from Creole and La Mouille, all in Brochon at the northern end of the Cote de Nuits. It gets the house treatment: fully destemmed fruit, gentle