Winemaker Notes
The Les Combettes vineyard, both a lieux-dits and a climat, lies next to Champ Canet to the northwest, Les Referts to the east and on the northeast, adjacent to Meaursault Perrières and Charms. Exhibiting the plumpness of Meaursault and the mineral qualities of Puligny.
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
60-year-old vines deliver plenty of richness, but there is also a very fresh side here, with a lemony fruit, a mineral edge and a hint of smoke - very 'Puligny'. The texture recalls the density of a Meursault with the crisp nature of a typical Puligny and it's a charming balance. Dujac farms a parcel of 0.62ha in Puligny Combettes near the border with Meursault. The grapes are lightly crushed and fermented in cask (20% new), where it will stay for 16 months (with a further six in tank).
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2020 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Combettes is richer and more layered, revealing aromas of pear, orange oil, baking spices, white flowers and honey, followed by a medium to full-bodied, lively and nicely concentrated palate, concluding with a saline finish.
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Jasper Morris
Mid yellow, plump bouquet with a little warmth. There is a good depth and breadth of fruit, a light final bitterness, but the ingredients are all there. All that is needed is for this wine to gain a touch more precision with time in bottle.
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.