2016 Meursault Premier Cru Les Charmes $1176 case
91-94 Points Vinous “Full yellow. Conveys a light touch to its aromas and flavors of musky yellow fruits, spices and minerals. At once salty and sweet, with perfectly integrated acidity giving the silky mid-palate lovely lift. Finishes with excellent length and salty grip. Rather 2014-like in style but with a bit more gras--and less austere at the outset.”
2016 Meursault Premier Cru Genevrieres $1500 case
92-94 Points Vinous “Medium yellow. Discreet aromas of mandarin orange and musky smoky oak. Suave, silky wine with a lovely balance of thick yet precise yellow fruits, soft citrus flavors and saline minerality. Finishes very long, spicy and pure, with a slight youthful aggressiveness. This tactile, extract-rich premier cru should age well.”
2016 Meursault Premier Cru Les Perrieres $1536 case
92-94 Points Vinous “Bright yellow. Musky scents of yellow fruits, flowers, minerals and hazelnut. Suave and seriously concentrated, with high-pitched flavors of pineapple, soft citrus fruits, spices and crushed stone complicated by a petrolly suggestion. Finishes with superb energy and carry-through: a bit more discreet on the end than the Genevrières but with a slowly building whiplash of flavor nonetheless. Very complete wine.”
2016 Puligny Montrachet Premier Cru Les Pucelles $1560 case
92-95 Points Vinous “Medium bright yellow. Fully ripe scents of stone and soft citrus fruits, hazelnut and spices, with a sexy musky note of nutty reduction. Suave on entry, then quite powerful, concentrated, salty and dry in the middle. Finishes penetrating and long, with some alcoholic warmth. This wine was demonstrably better on second taste and will benefit from several years of cellaring.”
2016 Puligny Montrachet Premier Cru Les Perrieres $1440 case
92-94 Points Vinous “Pale, bright yellow. Quite suave on the nose, combining stone fruits, rocky minerals and a musky smoky element. Suave and bright, with lively acidity (4.4 grams per liter) framing and lifting its citrus and peach fruit flavors; there's a mineral element here that's quite different from that of the Meursault Perrières. The very long, unflagging, mineral-driven aftertaste excites the taste buds without leaving any impression of weight.”
2016 Puligny Montrachet Premier Cru Clos de la Mouchere $1500 case
***A monopole inside of Perrieres
93-95 Points Vinous “Bright light-medium yellow. Utterly pure scents of stone fruits, apricot, nuts and honeysuckle. Rich, deep, silky and moderately saline but also powerful and backward, displaying terrific precision and purity in the mouth. A superb, classic Clos de la Mouchère: utterly plush and seamless without being heavy or over the top.”
2016 Corton Charlemagne Grand Cru $1128 6pack
93-96 Points Vinous “Bright light-medium yellow. Subtly complex, musky aromas of peach, caraway seed, nutmeg, mace and hazelnutty lees. At once densely packed and penetrating, with a stony citric pungency giving precision to the seamless middle palate and cutting through the wine's texture. Wonderfully pure and energetic for this cuvée, finishing tactile and unflagging, with terrific citrus lift. This has the palate-staining length and structure for a slow and graceful evolution in bottle; it's also the only 2016 here that struck me as tannic, but then classic Corton-Charlemagne typically shows structure more like a red wine.”
2016 Batard Montrachet Grand Cru $3300 6pack
93-96 Points Vinous “Palish yellow. Bright, subtle aromas of pear drop, white peach and lemon. Juicy and lively in the mouth, with fresh acidity giving cut to the wine's very intense citrus fruit flavors. Really titillates the taste buds on the very long, penetrating finish.”
