Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This has a load of grapefruit and lemon and a flinty, reductive edge, as well as attractive, stony notes. Long, ethereal palate with a super juicy array of white peaches, lemon curd and yellow grapefruit. Beautifully fleshy and supple with pitch-perfect, balanced acidity. Very intense, long finish. Mouthwatering. Great wine, from 80-year-old vines. Drink over the next decade.
Barrel Sample: 95-96 -
Decanter
The pick of the de Montille whites in 2017, this comes from the same slope as Montrachet and it shows in the quality and sheer class of the wine. Taut, textured and beautifully weighted, it's one of those wines that will drink well at every point in its life. Long and very mineral.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2017 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Caillerets offers up a nuttier, more reductive bouquet than the Folatières, wafting from the glass with notions of toasted bread, lime zest and crisp green apple. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, ample and tangy, with a tense, tight-knit core, chewy dry extract and good grip on the long finish. It's one of the high points of de Montille's 2017 collection.
Barrel Sample: 92-94 -
Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2017 Domaine de Montille Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Le Cailleret is a remarkable wine. TASTING NOTES: This wine is a complete success. Enjoy its concentrated and lovely aromas and flavors of earth, ripe fruit, and savor with lobster in a decadent, wild mushroom cream sauce. (Tasted: October 28, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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.