Puligny-Montrachet, Champ Canet, 1er Cru, 2014
More ripeness here to the flavours with touches of singed lemon, grilled peach, beurre noisette and crème caramel. A sense of texture and gloss pervades this and gives a more supple, seductive, rich feel to the Champs Canet than anything that’s come before. Sun-kissed fruit with a glow and a ripeness that gives it more immediate volume and scale. Very long. A great Puligny vineyard situated mid-slope, above Combettes and next door to Meursault Perrières, planted on a well-balanced mix of clay and limestone soils. The vines average 50 years old.
critic reviews
(13% alcohol; from a sunny, early-ripening site): Light, bright yellow. Yellow stone fruits and a whiff of pear on the deeply pitched, rather powerful nose; distinctly less delicate than the higher-altitude La Truffière. Fat, round and sweet but lacking the detail of Sauzet's other 2014 premier crus from Puligny; in fact, this is the first wine to taste a bit warm. Finishes a bit phenolic, with an edge of acidity giving the wine piquant lift but a slightly disjointed character. This was Sauzet's most hailed-on site, noted winemaker Riffault, although he maintained that only 15% of the fruit was affected.