Winemaker Notes
On the palate, this wine is full and rich from the start. The mid-palate is full with notes of apricot, peach, a light touch of citrus and a little exotic fruit. The acidity is present but well enveloped by the richness of the wine.
Pair this wine with fatty fish, turbot, Saint-Pierre, all cream sauces. Its complexity
requires a rich, greedy cuisine.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2020 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Combettes is showing even better than when I last tasted it shortly after bottling. Unfurling in the glass with a deep bouquet of pear, white flowers, orange leaf, buttery pastry and crushed mint, it's full-bodied, dense and satiny, with a layered, concentrated core and the thick, almost unctuous mid-palate typical of this terroir at its best, animated by racy acids and chalky structure.
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Jasper Morris
Clean, clear and fresh with an incisive white fruit. Noticeably citrus on the second half of the palate and slightly saline. This does not quite have the flesh of the very best Combettes. Lemons and grapefruit to finish.
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.