TASTING NOTES:
Though there’s plenty of flesh, this white is elegant, featuring peach, lemon oil, hazelnut, floral, butterscotch and oyster shell aromas and flavors. A supple style, just picking up some texture on the intense, mineral-driven aftertaste. Shows impressive harmony and length. Best from 2027 through 2036.
- Wine Spectator, 95 pts.
Aromas of white peach, toasted nuts, struck match and baking spices preface the 2023 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clavoillon, a medium- to full-bodied, satiny wine with good mid-palate density, bright acids and chalky structuring extract. It's a strong performance for this vineyard, celebrated in the 19th century for its red wines but long since consecrated to Chardonnay.
- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 pts.
The 2023 Puligny-Montrachet Clavoillon 1er Cru has a more backward bouquet with touches of petrichor and green apple unfolding in the glass, quite strict compared to the other cuvées. The palate is well balanced with a fine bead of acidity. There is a touch of reduction at the moment, but it is simpatico with the fruit and feels lightly spiced on the peppery finish. This will require a couple of years once in bottle.
- Vinous, 92 pts.
