Michel Colin-Deleger, Puligny Montrachet Demoiselles

Michel Colin-Deleger, Puligny Montrachet Demoiselles(from a . 15 ha parcel of 55+ year old vines). This is tight and closed to the point of being all but mute and only aggressive swirling coaxes shy notes of petrol, white flowers, citrus and a touch of oak toast to reveal themselves. The strikingly textured middle weight flavors seem to be constructed on a firm base of minerality before culminating in an intensely saline, mouth coating and beautifully well balanced finale. While quite firm at present

This youthfully austere effort is classic Rugiens and as such will need at least a decade of patience and probably more like 12 to 15 years of it

Additionally there first-rate freshness and verve to the precise

A beautifully complex and densely fruited nose of plum

(100% from

Lots of toasty oak on the back end but this is in balance with the fruit that drives the palate

with lots of soft

Le Fourneau

always has more elegance and polish

and loads of floral notes intermixed with blackberry

It's utterly mesmerizing

but the 2015 is done in a style that is more similar to that of its big brother

(55+ year old vines)