The 2016 Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru les Chalumeaux, matured in just under 15% new oak, has a fine, quite minerally bouquet with touches of limestone and granite. This is nicely detailed. The palate is well defined with a fine bead of acidity, fresh citric fruit with good depth and a brisk saline finish that will keep you coming back for more.

The 2015 Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru les Chalumeaux offers very good terroir expression on the nose: granite, grey slate and fumé scents emerging from the glass and gaining impressive intensity. The palate is clean and fresh, a pleasant reductive touch on the entry, a keen line of acidity with a smear of clear honey right towards the finish that betrays the vintage character. This is a well-made Chalumeaux.

The 2014 Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru les Chalumeaux has a very expressive, wet limestone, sea spray and flint-scented bouquet that opens with confidence. The palate is fresh and vibrant on the entry, rounded in the mouth but kept in check by the keen line of acidity. This is very refined and yet voluminous with lingering passion fruit and white peach notes on the sustained aftertaste. Excellent.