2018 Domaine Dujac, Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru, Les Combettes

The 2018 Puligny-Montrachet Les Combettes 1er Cru comes from vines in excess of 50 years old. It has an attractive bouquet of dew-dappled green apple, grass clippings and limestone aromas that gently unfold in the glass. The palate is fresh and energetic, showing more tension and nerve than the Folatières, with a captivating saline finish. Excellent.

The 2018 Puligny-Montrachet Les Combettes 1er Cru has quite an intense bouquet with orange sorbet, mint and green apples, well-defined and powerful. The palate is fresh and vibrant on the entry with a smack of sea salt, good acidity with an almost Meursault-like finish that lingers in the mouth. Maybe not a Les Combettes of immense longevity, but there is breeding here. - Neal Martin

Farmed by the Dujacs but not owned by them so it can still be labelled as a domaine wine. Higher than Folatières. Tank sample. ‘At last normal yields after previous hail and frost’, sighs Jeremy Seysses: 45 hl/ha. But court-noué is reducing yields. Tank sample. Riper and more intense fruit on the nose compared with Les Folatières but still pure citrus. Tight, stony, chewy/chalky. So much in the texture here. All in finesse and length on the palate. Piercing freshness and mineral/stony dry finish. (JH)