2024 Puligny Montrachet Les Pucelles
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Separated from Bâtard and Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet by the road, this is a fantastic Premier Cru. Alvina has been using two parcels for this wine, however from 2025 they will only have one (the other going to her cousin). The wine is stunning – with a flinty, mineral nose and lime blossom perfume. The wine offers such intensity yet purity – pithy, linear, driven and long, refined and not yet revealing itself fully. This will benefit from time in bottle, but the potential is clear. An elevated Premier Cru that overdelivers. Of the three barrels in 2024, one was new.
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Neal Martin, Vinous
Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy
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The 2024 Puligny Montrachet Les Pucelles ler Cru is the one cuvée that felt very reticent on the nose, suggesting that it will require more cellaring than its peers. The palate is very well balanced, lilting orange rind and Golden Delicious notes, the finish just a little backward at the moment. Let's see what it can do but patience required.
The 2024 Puligny-Montrachet Les Pucelles 1er Cru is the one cuvée that felt very reticent on the nose, suggesting that it will require more cellaring than its peers. The palate is very well balanced, lilting orange rind and Golden Delicious notes, the finish just a little backward at the moment. Let's see what it can do but patience required.
From two sources. An attractive pale lemon yellow. This is more chiselled than rich on the nose, but develops significant weight through the middle of the palate as the riper fruit kicks in. I find that the two styles are complementary in 2024. A couple of fresh apricot notes, but overall a classical Pucelles.
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.