2017 Puligny-Montrachet 1. Cru Les Pucelles Henri Boillot

The 2017 Puligny-Montrachet Les Pucelles 1er Cru has an intense bouquet of petrichor and light orange peel notes. It lacks a little harmony at first but then comes together nicely. The palate is elegant and sensual, offering a fine bead of acidity and orange pith and nectarine flavors. Lightly spiced and quite persistent on the finish, with some lime on the aftertaste. Very fine and undeniably very pretty. This will be difficult to resist. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting in Savigny-lès-Beaune.

Pure mid lemon yellow with power immediately apparent on the nose. No detail as yet. Another wine with excellent drive to it, more white fruit than yellow, very much sitting back on its haunches. A slight but engaging waxiness begins to emerge, and the fruit acid balance is impeccable.