Puligny Montrachet, Les Combettes, 1er Cru, 2022

More richness and body gives a suggestion of being on the way to Meursault here, with ripe rich fruit and then tension and drive and notes of nut and butter and stones on the finish. Powerful, with masses of dimension and yet breathtaking precision. Not so much fruit as wonderful rich minerality. Super smart. Sauzet's example of Combettes is one of the great Premiers Crus of Puligny, up there with Caillerets and Leflaive's Pucelles. From two adjacent plots, one of 30-year-old vines, the other 85 years old, neighbouring Lafon’s vines in Meursault Charmes. A supremely well-exposed vineyard, mid-slope like Champs Canet but with a little less limestone and more clay.