Maison Louis Latour - Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Sous le Puits 2022

Bettane & Desseauve

About the domain :

Founded in 1797, this family-run business has strong links with the Côte de Beaune, where it owns most of its vineyards, culminating in a sumptuous site on the famous Corton hillside. Louis-Fabrice, the eleventh generation of Latour, presides over the family board and has every confidence in his excellent winemakers. The reds have had their fermentation times extended, giving them more flesh and body, while the whites are less reduced and more harmoniously oaked than in the past, with a constant quest for balance that sometimes makes them undervalued in their youth, but they age magnificently. 2017 is in line with the success of 2010 and 2015, in both colors, but we'll trust the cuvées from the estate's vines more than certain purchases, especially the overly diluted whites.

Guide Hachette des vins

About the domain :

An independent family business, founded in 1797 and run successively by 10 generations of Latour. A key player in Burgundy winegrowing and the largest owner of Grands Crus in the Côte-d'Or (28 hectares of its 48 hectares of vineyards). The grapes are vinified in Aloxe-Corton, the family's birthplace, and the company has its own cooperage.

Robert Parker - Wine Advocate

Jancis Robinson

James Suckling

About the wine:

This fine Puligny-Montrachet 1er cru presents a subtle nose of bergamot and orange zest with hints of wild herbs. The generous yet concentrated palate has excellent tension and drives the very long, structured finish, which has a serious stony minerality. From a high-altitude site that may well become better known due to climate change. For drinking or cellaring.

Vert de Vin

About the wine:

The wine has a lemon-yellow color of medium intensity. The nose offers freshness, tension and a fine acidity. It expresses notes of green apple pulp, ripe yellow lemon, crisp apricot and fresh pineapple. After aeration, aromas of juicy peach, fresh flowers (white lily, acacia, lime blossom, chamomile), hay in the background, honey and a herbaceous touch of crushed peppermint and fresh quince add freshness and originality. Woody and roasted aromas are delicate and integrated - the wine expresses notes of fresh hazelnut, roasted hazelnut in the background, vanilla and hazelnut butter. The palate is perfumed, precise and complex. On the attack, it expresses perceptible but not exuberant woody notes (toasted wood, fresh wood, toasted hazelnut), vanilla, crushed cardamom and hazelnut butter. This is followed by greedy stone fruit (yellow peach, apricot, yellow plum) and candied citrus (candied lemon and orange peel, a hint of grapefruit jam), combined with floral notes of acacia and apple blossom, and a touch of lime-blossom honey and hay. The finish is fragrant, long, slightly bitter and fresh, thanks to salivating acidity and tangy notes of green apple and fresh quince, which appear on the finish.