Louis Jadot Puligny-Montrachet 2014
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This white Burgundy pairs well with bouillon, creamed and poached fish, poultry liver pates, and strong cheeses like Munster and aged Comte.
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Lemon candy and spice flavors mark this bracing white. Balanced on the sharp side, with a toasty, vanilla-tinged finish. For fans of acidity. Best from 2018 through 2024. 3,200 cases made.
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This clean Puligny has a springtime glow, with lily-of-the-valley scents and a lilting, copacetic balance that makes it feel light and fresh. Yet, in fact, the wine is relatively dense, a pleasure to drink now for its quiet richness, and a sensible bet for the cellar.
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One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
A source of some of the finest, juicy, silky and elegantly floral Chardonnay in the Côte de Beaune, Puligny-Montrachet lies just to the north of Chassagne-Montrachet, a village with which it shares two of its Grands Crus vineyards: Le Montrachet itself and Bâtard-Montrachet. Its other two, which it owns in their entirety, are Chevalier-Montrachet and Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet. And still, some of the finest white Burgundy wines come from the prized Premiers Crus vineyards of Puligny-Montrachet. To name a few, Les Pucelles, Le Clavoillon, Les Perrières, Les Referts and Les Combettes, as well as the rest, lie northeast and up slope from the Grands Crus.
Farther to the southeast are village level whites and the hamlet of Blagny where Pinot Noir grows best and has achieved Premier Cru status.