2018 Puligny Montrachet Les Folatieres
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The 2018 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Folatières is consistent with my assessment a year ago, opening in the glass with scents of white peach, golden orchard fruit, flowers and pastry cream. Medium-bodied, ample and fleshy, with an open-knit core of fruit, succulent acids and a charming, textural profile, it's already showing well.
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Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
Allen Meadows, Burghound
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One of their longest contracts for the grapes, back to the early 1960s. Cask sample. Creamy, rich aroma of deep lees, giving a savoury quality to the ripe and piercing bright citrus fruit. Mouth-filling and quite spicy, not as rich in the middle as I expected from the nose but long and stony on the finish. (JH)
About the producer
Joseph Drouhin is one of the largest and most famous producers in Burgundy, making both domaine and négociant wines. It remains family-owned and run, now in the hands of the fourth generation.