Louis Jadot Puligny-Montrachet Clos de la Garenne Premier Cru Duc de Magenta 2016
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The Clos de la Garenne of Duc de Magenta is a full and generous yet extremely elegant wine, with distinctive peach and almond nuances as well as fruity and oaky aromas both on the nose and on the palate.
This great white wine is destined to honor haute cuisine: shellfish cooked in a court-bouillon, creamed and poached fish, poultry liver pâtés, ripe cheeses like Munster and mature Comté.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: Louis Jadot Puligny-Montrachet la Garenne is one of Burgundy's best premier crus. I have been a fan of this wine for several decades, and I have been fortunate to enjoy many vintages. This wine has always performed well, and indeed the 2016 vintage is admirable. TASTING NOTES: This wine is compact and expansive. Its aromas and flavors of tart apples, brisk minerality, and a hint of citrus peel should pair it well with roast chicken in a light tarragon-infused cream sauce. (Tasted: January 23, 2018, San Francisco, CA)
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2016 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clos de la Garenne had a very feisty bouquet, much more expressive than its peers, with scents of grilled walnut and smoke. It seems to calm down with aeration but it certainly has a lot of vigor. The palate is well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, harmonious and with just a slightly honeyed texture. I appreciate the complexity on the finish here and this Clos de la Garenne shows more terroir expression that its peers from Jadot. Worth checking out.
Barrel Sample: 90-92
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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.