2020 Puligny Montrachet La Rue aux Vaches
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The 2020 Puligny-Montrachet La Rue Aux Vaches is one of the highlights of the range, unwinding in the glass with aromas of citrus oil, crisp orchard fruit, white flowers and discreet reduction. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and incisive with racy acids and chalky grip, this cuvée is pressed in house with a vertical press, and the results give the best measure of what's to come from this estate in the future.
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Neal Martin
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The 2020 Puligny-Montrachet La Rue Aux Vaches consists of only one barrel. This is pressed using a small vertical press without any debourbage and transferred straight into cask. Perhaps the oak is a little more present here, though it is finely enmeshed within the apply fruit and will be completely subsumed with time. The palate is well balanced with fine acidity, lilting citrus fruit laced with orange peel, then a very discrete spicy note towards the tensile finish. Difficult not swallowing this sample! This is bottled in magnum only.
About the producer
Alvina Pernot is one of the most exciting producers of white Burgundy today. Based in Puligny-Montrachet with some incredible vineyards, this is a name to watch – creating taut and mineral styles of white Burgundy.