PULIGNY MONTRACHET

2016 1er Cru Clos du Cailleret Domaine des Lambrays

EN PRIMEUR

Just 200 metres between their Puligny vineyards Folatieres and this Caillerets. Always the same harvest date, same pickers, same ageing - the only difference is the soil, the 'terroir' and the Caillerets is always more mineral and 'stony'. More lifted. Caillerets used to be a Red vineyard, which is perhaps why it was not classified GC in 1930 - but the quality is very good. Really good. Bright, perky but all so finely tuned. Delicious. Layered and textured. Very good Puligny. Bought these vineyards from Chartron in 1993. O.36 ha in CailleretsL&S (Oct 2017)

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Ex Chartron. All made exactly the same way as Les Folatières. 150 cases. Nervy. And refined – but more restrained than Les Folatières. Very refreshing and refined. Long. But good flesh too. Drinking range: 2019 - 2028 Rating: 17.5 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2018)

The 2016 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clos du Cailleret has a little more richness on the nose than the Folatières with scents of wild honey and a hint of melted butter, the latter ebbing with aeration to reveal more floral scents. The palate is very well balanced with a fine line of acidity and it demonstrates a little more salinité than the Folatières at the moment. Excellent. Drinking range: 2019 - 2030 Rating: 92 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Dec 2017)

The 'Clos' consists of 8.66 hectares of land enclosed by a wall in which there is the original milestone marking its founding in 1365, confirmed in the records of the Abbaye de Citeaux (those monks knew where to place a vineyard). The Clos owes much of its current fame to the nineteenth and twentieth century proprietors who reconstituted it after the fragmentation of ownership which followed the French revolution. Despite always having been considered a Grand Cru site, the Clos was in fact classified Premier Cru in the original 1936 appellations contrôlées.

The Rodier family which owned it from the 1930s fought to regain its Grand cru status, with eventual success only in 1981, when it became the last of the thirty-three Grands Crus of Burgundy, although by then it had passed to the Saier family. Recently under the benign ownership of the Günther Freund and his family, who gave a very free hand to régisseur Thierry Brouin, who had been employed by their predecessor Rolland Pelletier de Chambure, the quality of the wines here has pushed up again. In 2014 it was bought by the LVMH group.

It has been all rather quick change here as Jacques Devauge has taken over here after a short interregnum under Boris Champy. The legacy of Thierry Brouin can still be felt, Jacques decribing him as having been 'clairvoyant' in his approach to the domaine, which has set it up well to deal with challenges of warmer vintages. Jacques seems set to take this estate onward - 'every domaine has to challenge itself to do better', he says. 2019 marks the second year being fully organic - if all goes well they will be certified after another two.

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