ETIENNE SAUZET Puligny-Montrachet Les Folatieres En La Richarde

WA: 90-93

Sauzet's 2019 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Folatières En la Richarde mingles notes of crisp yellow apple and pear with hints of white flowers, honeycomb and hazelnuts. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and enveloping, it's textural and generous, with chalky structuring extract and ripe acids, concluding with a perfumed finish. In 2018, this was one of the more dramatic, sun-kissed whites in the Sauzet portfolio, and that's the case once again in 2019.

VN: 92-94

The 2019 Puligny-Montrachet Les Folatières En La Richards 1er Cru, which comes from a single plot of 50-year-old vines, has one of the most precise and delineated bouquets among Sauzet’s Premier Crus with a heightened sense of mineralité. The palate is very well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, taut and fresh, very saline in the mouth with a spicy aftertaste. I find this quite mercurial, constantly changing in the glass, making this one of Sauzet’s most intriguing offerings this vintage.