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PULIGNY MONTRACHET

2011 1er Cru Champ Canet Domaine Jean-Marc Boillot

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ChardonnayWhiteFrance,BurgundyCôte d'OrCôte de BeaunePuligny Montrachet1er Cru 13%Champ Canet

Less delicate than the Referts, but more intense. A driven, angular, long wine which will take a little more time: it feels slow to reveal.L&S (Jan 2013)

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The nose has a powerful mix of flavours rich greengage and ripe melon. The sweetness is balanced by lime and apple giving freshness and crispness on the back palate and finish. 2014-19 Rating: 92 Derek Smedley MW, www.dereksmedleymw.co.uk (Dec 2013)

Boillot's 2011 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Champs Canet is a bit creamier and richer on the palate than the Referts. Sweet spices, almonds and white stone fruits all flesh out in an inviting, layered Burgundy of notable class. Bright and focused, yet also generous, the Champs Canet shows off terrific balance, richness and resonance all the way through to the close. This is another very pretty wine from Boillot. Rating: 92 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Nov 2013)

Stone fruits, spices and a musky leesy nuance on the nose. Round, ripe and concentrated, with a rich peach flavor framed by harmonious acidity. Fills the mouth without leaving any impression of weight. This graceful wine finishes smooth and long. Rating: 92 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Sept 2013)

Rating: 18+ Matthew Jukes www.matthewjukes.com (Jan 2013)

Rating: 92 Tim Atkin MW, www.timatkin.com (Jan 2013)

Smells like wet chalk. Lots of substance and even a bit of richness. Something to get your teeth into. 2014-2022 Rating: 17 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2013)

Jean-Marc Boillot left the family domaine to be winemaker to Olivier Leflaive for five years. Then from his maternal grandfather Étienne Sauzet he inherited much of the vineyard of the old Domaine Sauzet, in some of the best vineyards of Puligny. With this holding and others from his paternal side, he set up his own business, and he has been responsible for over 50 vintages. His daughter Lydie and son-in-law François Alzingre have worked alongside him and effectively run the domaine, and are now being joined by their children.

With the belief that a vine reaches its full potential when 40 years old, the team look after their old vines carefully, and those in La Garenne and Combettes are still those planted by J-M's grandfather Étienne Sauzet. Vines are planted to a minimum of 12000 vines per hectare, and the vineyard worked by ploughing to encourage the plants to have deep roots. They are trimmed quite high at 1.2m to leave lots of leaves for photosynthesis, and also to shade the bunches from direct sun exposure which might burn them.

Great care is taken over the date of harvest, with careful controls of ripeness made over a period of three weeks prior to starting. The grapes are harvested manually, and placed in small cases for transport to the winery, where they are pressed as whole bunches. The juice is allowed to settle out in tank and then transferred to barrel for fermentation with the fine lees. Batonnage once a week during the 11 months of barrel-aging helps the wines to feed and fatten on the lees. They normally use between 25 and 30% new wood. The domaine makes wines that show well young, with sometimes citrussy, sometimes with complex exotic fruit aromas, always with the core of minerality, and they age well too.

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