PULIGNY MONTRACHET
2011 Domaine Jean-Marc Boillot
Lovely example, fresh and pure and very Puligny in its style of fruit. Not as serious as Henri Boillot's, but very pretty for all that, and it is still filling out as it warms up in the mouth.L&S (Jan 2013)
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The nose is fresh and racy lime driven and the start of the palate has mineral and lime freshness. The mid palate has a nice depth of flavour some sweet melon but towards the back the lime freshness brightens the finish. 2014-18 Rating: 90 Derek Smedley MW, www.dereksmedleymw.co.uk (Dec 2013)
The 2011 Puligny-Montrachet has a little more tension and drive than the Meursault villages, but a bit less in the way of generosity. Yellow stone fruits, flowers and crushed rocks all flow from this gracious, pointed, beautifully focused village-level Puligny. Far from an easygoing wine, this is a villages that is going to require time in bottle. Rating: 89 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Nov 2013)
Musky stone fruits on the nose. Round and open-knit, with good weight and lift to the stone fruit and spice flavors. Suave and persistent village wine. (Incidentally, Boillot's ripe, round, oatmealy 2011 Bourgogne Blanc would make for a very tasty restaurant by-the-glass pour right now.) Rating: 89 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Sept 2013)
Rating: 17.5 Matthew Jukes www.matthewjukes.com (Jan 2013)
Round and relatively rich – even a little soft. Some mild toastiness – though so much less than there would have been five years ago! 2014-2017 Rating: 16 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2013)
Domaine Jean-Marc Boillot
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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