Louis Jadot Puligny-Montrachet Les Folatieres 2016
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Puligny-Montrachet, situated to the south of Meursault and to the north of Chassagne Montrachet, shares with Chassagne a handful of the greatest white wine vineyards in the world. The Premier Cru vineyards of Puligny Montrachet, noted for the exceptionally high and consistent quality of the wines they produce, stretch across the upper half of Puligny's slope from Meursault to Chassagne.
Maison Louis Jadot practices a traditional oak vinification to yield a full-flavored yet graceful wine of exceptional balance and breed, with complex, distinctive aromas typical of Puligny. Les Folatières is a wine marrying intensity and finesse, with a full richness tempered by great elegance. The bouquet, allying well-bred fruit notes of almonds and minerals, which are repeated on the palate in the long finish.
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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The 2016 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Folatières has one of the finest aromatics from Jadot apropos this appellation: excellent delineation and focus, real mineralité coming through with cold flinty, smoky scents complementing the citrus fruit. The palate is well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, quite tensile with citrus lemon, orange pith and stony notes on the slightly terse yet intriguing finish. This comes highly recommended.
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This opens in the glass with notes of citrus zest, preserved lemon, toasted nuts and dried white flowers. On the palate the wine is full-bodied and quite ample, but like the Clos de la Chapelle it retains tension and focus on the finish. This seems to be a generous, near-term rendition of Folatières, but it should deliver lots of pleasure. Drinking Window 2019 - 2028
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This has the yellow spice of a field carpeted in chamomile, an earthy, waxy, floral tone that seamlessly integrates the oak and fruit elements of the wine. It has the flamboyant savor of a bloomy-rind cheese, nutty and satisfying. The structure, both rich and tense, will hold the wine for five years or more.
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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.