2017 Puligny Montrachet Les Caillerets
Market price
Buying options
Tasting notes
The 2017 Puligny-Montrachet Les Caillerets 1er Cru has a very fragrant bouquet offering touches of honeysuckle, orange zest, crushed stone and later more blood orange aromas. The palate is balanced, linear and fairly conservative after the aromatics. Maybe this is beginning to close up? After an initial period when it seems buttoned down, this Pucelles blossoms with aeration to reveal a gorgeous, refined, spicy finish with impressive persistence. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting in Savigny-lès-Beaune.
Critic scores
The Wine Advocate
Neal Martin
More reviews and scores
The 2017 Puligny-Montrachet Les Caillerets 1er Cru has a fresh, brisk, green apple and wet limestone scented bouquet that is nicely focused. The palate is well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, showing a little more tension than the Les Perrières at the moment with a tang of sea salt towards the quite persistent finish. Excellent.
This has a load of grapefruit and lemon and a flinty, reductive edge, as well as attractive, stony notes. Long, ethereal palate with a super juicy array of white peaches, lemon curd and yellow grapefruit. Beautifully fleshy and supple with pitch-perfect, balanced acidity. Very intense, long finish. Mouthwatering. Great wine, from 80-year-old vines. Drink over the next decade.
About the producer
Volnay’s Domaine de Montille is one of the most historic in the Côte d’Or. Founded in 1730, the property remains family-owned and run, with Etienne de Montille – the ninth generation – at the helm today.