2022 Joseph Drouhin, Puligny-Montrachet

The 2022 Puligny-Montrachet Village, which comes from purchased fruit and matured in 20% new oak, has a commendable presence on the nose: light tropical-tinged scents and traces of wet limestone coming through with aeration. The palate is well-balanced with good extract, dried honey, and light apricot notes on the mid-palate, though it needs just a tad more mineralité on the finish. Drink over the next five to six years.

Offering up aromas of white peach, apple blossom and freshly baked bread, the 2022 Puligny-Montrachet Village is medium-bodied, ample and satiny, with lively acids and a pretty, fine-boned profile.

From lots of different sources. They work with a broker who supplies grapes or musts not wines. Barrel-aged wine blended in tank. Tank sample. Still a bit of savoury oak on the nose. Refined. Pure and early-maturing. Quite intense. (JR)