Puligny-Montrachet, Les Garennes, 1er Cru, 2019
This recalls the Puligny Nosroyes, with its classic 'Puligny' slender shape and minerally flavours. Just a more intense, more complex version. A rich, ripe fruit profile but fine-boned with it, this offers perfumed, sweet but focused yellow plum and orange blossom honey flavours mixed with sweet spice touches. This is immediately charming and open-knit with a welcome saline note to the sunny, enveloping finish. A south-east facing vineyard, high up the hill just below the forest, planted on white, rocky limestone soils with fossils in the subsoil. A cool and mineral terroir. Aged in 20% new oak for 12 months followed by 6 months in tank.
critic reviews
The 2019 Puligny-Montrachet La Garenne 1er Cru was a little reticent on the nose following on from the Les Bouchères, earthy notes and hints of damp straw filtering through the citrus fruit. The palate is well balanced with a waxy-textured opening and moderate acidity, although it does not quite kick on toward the finish. Give this two or three years in bottle and hopefully it will open. Maybe a little charmless vis-à-vis the domaine’s other cuvées.