Winemaker Notes
The wine is bathed in the golden light of summer wheat, giving off notes of roasted cereals and its stubble. A touch of sun-warmed stone appears on the finish. Always full-bodied on the palate, the wine reveals a salivating flavor with exquisite minerality
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
A wine of great intensity and concentration, offering aromas of grapefruit and passionfruit with suggestions of acacia flowers and spice. The texture shows impressive density, but the crisp acidity ensures that this stays lively and dynamic on the palate. The grapes are from the hectare the Chartron family owns here; they were lightly crushed and gently pressed before fermentation in cask (30% new). This will open more in five to seven years and should drink well for at least another 30.
Barrel Sample: 96 -
Vinous
The 2023 Puligny-Montrachet Clos du Cailleret 1er Cru has more precision and mineralité compared to the Clos de la Pucelle at this stage. It's vibrant and poised, with real drive and energy. The palate is concentrated and lightly spiced, with a keen line of acidity and plenty of energy and penetration on the finish. This represents an outstanding contribution to the vintage. I suspect it will land at the top of my banded score.
Barrel Sample: 93-95 -
Jasper Morris
One of the paler colours with an intense but unforthcoming nose. A concentrated raft of white fruit through the middle, then a more electric mineral finish. There is both more flesh and a little more wood showing, compared to Pucelles. Fine length. Barrel Sample: 92-94
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.