Puligny Montrachet, Les Folatières, 1er Cru, 2016

Name: Puligny Montrachet, Les Folatières, 1er Cru
Brand: Bachelet Monnot
Price: 1663.07 GBP

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justerini & brooks tasting note

Much surlier than the gregarious Referts, brooding and minerally with great concentration of flavour. Tightly-coiled and reserved but there is energy and depth aplenty here. Crunchy citrus and yellow plum fruit mixed with dry stone and sea salt characteristics. Long, rich but vivid and tense. One of the top vineyards in Puligny next to Caillerets, from a high up parcel where the soil is particularly poor and stony but well exposed to the sun. From a particularly well situated parcel in the northernmost corner of this great vineyard, right next to the Leflaive vines.

critic reviews

92+/100Stephen Tanzer,Vinous

Pale, bright yellow. Pure, perfumed scents of white peach, anise, noble herbs and white pepper; the most classic of these '16s on the nose. Then sappy and dense but weightless, displaying more pungency and cut than the Referts. Not a fleshy style but the fine-grained, fully ripe flavors of peach and hazelnut boast excellent punch and clarity, not to mention finesse. The slowly building finish is thick and rich but firm-edged, even a bit youthfully tight (Marc Bachelet told me that he liked the reductive quality some of the estate's 2016s took on during their last months in tank). The Bachelets' vines are on the Meursault side of the appellation, just below La Truffière. Incidentally, the crop level here was 45 hectoliters per hectare in 2016, which Marc Bachelet said was the biggest crop in this premier cru since 2009.

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date of review 09/2018