Louis Jadot Puligny-Montrachet Clos de la Garenne Premier Cru Duc de Magenta 2018
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Bright floral notes and candied citrus highlight the complex aromatic profile. The concentration of the site and old vines is evident in the tightly wound classic flavors.
Matches well with all seafood and white meats, with complex sauces, or with fine ripe cheeses and toasted nuts.
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Deliciously fresh, this wine stood apart from other Puligny wines in our tastings. One taster described the clarity of its structure as “iron and silk—like drinking cold water out of a mountain stream.” From deep-rooted vines (some over 80 years old) with concentrated, low yields, this wine opens to apple-blossom scents and lime- stone acidity that expands over the course of days, fleshing out into scents of chamomile, raw honey, Meyer lemon and tangerine amidst the fatty, cracked-walnut tones of youthful oak. Flo-ral and deliciously fresh, this wine will go places as it ages over the coming decades.
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The 2018 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clos de la Garenne (Duc de Magenta) has turned out very well, bursting with aromas of pear, toasted almonds, pastry cream, white flowers and Meyer lemon. Medium to full-bodied, elegantly fleshy and enveloping, with an ample core of succulent fruit, lively acids and a nicely defined, gently oak-inflected finish, this will offer a broad drinking window.
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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.