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

Bettane & Desseauve

About the estate:

This family-owned estate, founded in 1797, is primarily associated with the Côte de Beaune, where it owns the bulk of its vineyards, culminating in a magnificent plot on the famous Corton hillside. Louis-Fabrice, the eleventh generation of the Latour family, chairs the family board and has complete confidence in his excellent winemakers. The reds have undergone extended fermentation, giving them more body and substance; the whites are less reductive and more harmoniously oaked than in the past, with a constant pursuit of balance that sometimes leads to them being underestimated in their youth, but they age magnificently. The 2017 vintage follows in the successful footsteps of the 2010 and 2015 vintages for both reds and whites, but we would place more confidence in the wines made from the estate’s own vineyards than in certain purchased grapes, especially the whites, which are too diluted.

Guide Hachette des vins

About the estate:

A family-owned estate that has always remained independent, founded in 1797 and run by 10 successive generations of the Latour family. A key player in Burgundy’s wine industry and the largest owner of Grand Cru vineyards in the Côte-d’Or (28 hectares out of the 48 that make up its vineyard). The grapes are vinified in Aloxe-Corton, the family’s birthplace, and the estate has its own cooperage.

Robert Parker - Wine Advocate

Jancis Robinson

James Suckling

About the wine:

This beautiful Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru offers a subtle nose of bergamot and orange zest with hints of wild herbs. The palate is generous yet concentrated, with excellent structure, leading into a very long, well-structured finish that displays a pronounced stony minerality. It comes from a high-altitude vineyard that may well become better known due to climate change. Drink now or cellar.

Vert de Vin

About the wine:

The wine has a lemon-yellow color of medium intensity. The nose offers freshness, tension, and a subtle hint of acidity. It reveals notes of green apple pulp, ripe lemon, crisp apricot, and fresh pineapple. After aeration, aromas of juicy peach, fresh flowers (white lily, acacia, linden, chamomile), hay in the background, honey, as well as a herbaceous touch of crushed peppermint and fresh quince emerge, bringing freshness and originality. The woody and roasted aromas are delicate and well-integrated—the wine notably expresses notes of fresh hazelnut, roasted hazelnut in the background, vanilla, and brown butter. The palate is fragrant, precise, and complex. On the attack, it reveals perceptible but not overpowering woody notes (toasted wood, fresh wood, toasted hazelnut), vanilla, crushed cardamom, and brown butter. Next, we find the richness of stone fruits (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, as well as a touch of linden honey and hay. The finish is fragrant, long, slightly bitter, and fresh, thanks to a mouth-watering acidity and tart notes of green apple and fresh quince, which emerge on the finish.