Joseph Drouhin - Puligny Montrachet 2022 (Pre-arrival) (750ml)

 Pre-arrival 
WA
90
JM
88-90
V
89-91

Price: $120.00

Producer Joseph Drouhin
Country France
Region Burgundy
Subregion Puligny-montrachet
Varietal Chardonnay
Vintage 2022
Sku 8405
Size 750ml

Jasper Morris: 88-90 Points

Pale lemon yellow. Some oak showing and a fleshier style of Puligny though not too heated. Clean white fruit throughout with a crystalline note and a medium to long finish.

Wine Advocate: 90 Points

Offering up aromas of white peach apple blossom and freshly baked bread the 2022 Puligny-Montrachet Village is medium-bodied ample and satiny with lively acids and a pretty fine-boned profile. This historic Beaune négociant house is also an important proprietor in its own right and one that's only growing with the acquisition last year of 20 additional hectares located in Saint-Romain and Saint-Véran. The Drouhin family remains committed to the ideal of elegance and the 2022 vintage has played into their hands in that respect producing a crop of sensual charming wines that come warmly recommended. Robert Drouhin told me that they're planning to extend white wine élevage?which I might have the temerity to suggest complementing with a more reductive handling in the cellar as I have tended to find recent vintages of the Laguiche Montrachet more glorious in the flush of youth than after a decade in the cellar. Published: Jan 18 2024

Vinous: 89-91 Points

The 2022 Puligny-Montrachet Village which comes from purchased fruit and matured in 20% new oak has a commendable presence on the nose: light tropical-tinged scents and traces of wet limestone coming through with aeration. The palate is well-balanced with good extract dried honey and light apricot notes on the mid-palate though it needs just a tad more mineralité on the finish. Drink over the next five to six years. (Drink between 2025-2032)