Description
This Puligny-Montrachet is an extremely stylish wine with apple and lemon aromas and further citrus and oatmeal character on the palate. It’s a fine-textured, fairly full-bodied wine with superb depth of flavour. A lovely, classic white Burgundy, with citrus fruit elegance that is the hallmark of Puligny-Montrachet, and that shows off why this part of Burgundy is so highly regarded. It’s great for drinking now or will keep well till 2029 easily in half bottle. A great match for pork or chicken dishes, and vegetable risotto. 13% alcohol.
This year the wine is bottled with the name ‘Composition Parcellaire’, meaning that Philippe Pernot selected the very best parcels from his Puligny vineyards to make the wine, a total of 9 different parcels make up the blend! It’s very hard not to love and will suit Burgundy lovers and those new to great Chardonnay alike.
Philippe Pernot married Madame Belicard, hence the name of the Pernot-Belicard domaine. The vineyards are hers, but he farms them and makes the wines, and will add his own vineyards to the mix on inheriting them from his father, another well-respected Puligny farmer, Paul Pernot. Puligny-Montrachet vineyards sit between Meursault and Chassagne-Montrachet, in Burgundy’s sub-region of Cote de Beaune. Many rate these as the finest whites in the world given the crystalline purity and depth of flavour they can achieve. Puligny can be austere in youth or so delicate that you might wonder what the fuss is about, but the wines open up in the glass with air, and over time in bottle when they develop a delicious lemon pie, honey and nut character. The nine different parcels of grapes were harvested by hand, pressed and then put straight into oak barrels for fermentation (20% of which were new oak barrels) and malo-lactic fermentation, followed by ageing. The wine was aged in total for 16 months before a light filtration and fining, and then bottling.
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