2010 Puligny Montrachet Les Combettes
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Good bright yellow. Ripe, rather powerful aromas of stone fruits, acacia flower and truffle. Dense and silky but also quite vibrant, with harmonious acidity giving shape to the very rich mid-palate. Very tactile, layered 2010 with an impressively long, sweet finish. Give this at least four or five years in the cellar.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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The 2010 Puligny-Montrachet Les Combettes is super-refined. It, too, shows the exotic side of Puligny but with more restraint and a less extroverted personality than some of the other wines in this lineup. Elements of tension and minerality give the Combettes more pure energy than some of the other Pulignys, but it is hard to say that the Combettes is meaningfully better. More accurately, it is simply different in style.
Neat and scented and proper savoury stuff. Dense. Dry finish and lots of layers on the palate. Definitely superior. (JR)
Subtle perfume of stone fruits, flowers and hazelnut. Very rich for the vintage but without any exotic character to its peach and mineral flavors. Impressively powerful and gripping on the finish, which shows an almost tannic phenolic character. Very backward wine.