Bachelet Monnot

Puligny Montrachet, Les Referts, 1er Cru, 2016

Name: Puligny Montrachet, Les Referts, 1er Cru
Brand: Bachelet Monnot
Price: 1363.07 GBP

92/100

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2016
12x75cl
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£1,363.07

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

A charming and highly accomplished wine. Ripe but graceful, fluid fruit. Gorgeous flavours of nectarine, lemon zest and mandarin. The flowing, silky texture hemmed in nicely by a fine seam of freshness. A brilliant Referts! From prime-situated vines next door to those of Sauzet, where the large clay content of the soils yields generous round wines of beautiful fruit.

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Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

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Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

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Critic Reviews

92/100

Stephen Tanzer,

Vinous

Bright medium yellow. Deep scents of apricot, very ripe peach, hazelnut and nutmeg; distinctly yellow in its fruit character. Enters the mouth thick, silky and highly concentrated but at the same dry, savory and alive, with its ripe yellow fruit flavors complemented by a note of marzipan. This voluminous wine boasts near-grand cru texture and palate presence. At my visit to this estate, I found this '16 tastier than its 2017 sibling but both vintages are superb. The very long, slowly rising finish spreads out horizontally and echoes on the aftertaste.

drinking window 2022 - 2029

date of review 09/2018

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.