2017 Puligny Montrachet Les Folatieres

The 2017 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Folatières is showing brilliantly from bottle, soaring from the glass with aromas of fresh pear, citrus oil, dried white flowers, fresh pastry and nutmeg. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, satiny and incisive, with an elegantly concentrated core, racy acids and a long finish. This has gained in precision with élevage and surpasses its showing last year.

The 2017 Puligny-Montrachet Les Folatières 1er Cru has a very taut nose at first, only reluctantly unfurling to reveal green apple scents with touches of honeysuckle and linseed developing with time in the glass. The well-balanced palate is fresh on the entry with a fine bead of acidity, perhaps just needing to manifest more terroir expression and mineralité on the finish.