Etienne Sauzet Les Combettes Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru 2022

Critical Acclaim: 95 pts Burghound; 95 pts Jasper Morris; 95 pts Vinous; 94 pts Robert Parker's Wine Advocate. 

"Cool, airy and strikingly elegant aromas display a broad array of floral elements that are laced with hints of citrus, wet stone, spice and an admirably discreet touch of oak. The super-sleek and again almost painfully intense middle weight flavors are a combination of power and refinement, all wrapped in a wonderfully long and impeccably well-balanced finale. This is textbook Combettes and seriously good not to mention entirely ageworthy."- Burghound. 

"Another beautiful bouquet after an elegant colour. This keeps building, and seems to have rediscovered the magic of Combettes which I thought was lost in the hottest years. There is a fulsome weight of white fruit, while retaining energy. Just enough acidity, with ripe apples at the finish."- Jasper Morris. 

"The 2022 Puligny-Montrachet Les Combettes 1er Cru has a clean, precise bouquet with wet limestone, Granny Smith apples, menthol and light sea spray scents that could only originate from this appellation. The palate is very well-balanced, one of the most powerful of Sauzet's Premier Crus. It possesses perhaps its spiciest and most texturally satisfying finishes that lingers long in the mouth. Excellent."- Vinous. 

"The 2022 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Combettes is terrific, offering up aromas of pear, citrus zest, white flowers, toasted nuts and fresh mint, followed by a medium to full-bodied, satiny and layered palate that's dense and structured, with racy acids and chalky grip. I suspect it may surpass even the excellent 2020 version."- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate. 

Varietal: Chardonnay.