2009 PULIGNY MONTRACHET 1er Cru Clos de la Mouchère Domaine Henri Boillot

Ye olde drama and struck match that I remember from olden days. Lots to get your teeth into here though a little more restrained on the finish than some earlier vintages. (I remember when – a much earlier vintage of - this was served on Concorde...) 2014-2021   17.5

(from 60+ year old vines and the vineyard is a whopping 4 ha monopole within Perrières). There is also a trace of reduction and sulfur remnants present on the nose though there is a brilliant purity to the refined and penetratingly mineral-driven flavors that possess outstanding precision and cut on the powerful finish that is quite dry for the vintage with almost painful intensity. A real stunner. 2016+   95

Bright yellow. Yellow peach and clove on the nose. Spicy, pure and sharply delineated but with less obvious structure today than the Pucelles. Delivers a compelling combination of sweetness and energy, saturating the palate with sweet peach and spice flavors while conveying an impression of weightlessness. Finishes with superb fruit and classically dry flavor. Boasts the same dynamism in 2009 as Boillot's outstanding Batard. This is from 75-year-old vines: Boillot refers to the vineyard as "une vieille dame."   93-95/100

Wonderful mineralité on the nose...feel those crushed stones! The palate is surfeit with ripe, nutty fruit, a touch of smoke, good acidity with a very precise, controlled finish that lingers with a hazelnut tang. Very fine.   94

A really well chosen négociant wine, with classic Puligny sap and minerality, this is beautifully balanced, with nuanced oak, tangy acidity and a smoky undertone. 2-7 years.   94

Fine intense nose, delicately toasty and leesy, very complex and rich; lovely rich and intensely concentrated Chardonnay fruit with voluptuous stonefruit flavours etched with sweet butterscotch and toasty vanillin oak and framed by fine acidity and mineral finesse. A beautiful, intense and complex white Burgundy.   94/100