The 2017 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Chaum?es Clos de la Truffi?re was marked by a light touch of reduction, with leesy top notes of nutmeg and bread dough mingling with its bouquet of orchard fruit, confit lemon and toasted nuts. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, satiny and expansive, with the broadest shoulders and the most mid-palate amplitude of any premier cru in the range, balanced by juicy acids and concluding with a taut finish that I suspect is slightly shorted by the wine's youthful reduction. Experience suggests that the only missing ingredient is a couple years of bottle age.

There is a residual touch of unabsorbed post-bottling sulfur that is enough to presently largely mask the underlying fruit at today. The round, delicious and nicely textured medium weight flavors exhibit focused power on the reasonably complex but highly persistent finish. While I have certainly built in the development of additional depth into my rating, the track record of this wine is such that it could surprise to the upside.