Arnaud Ente, Puligny Montrachet Champ Gain Vintage:2015

Arnaud Ente, Puligny Montrachet Champ Gain Vintage:2015A relatively high toned nose is comprised by cool, pure and airy notes of mineral reduction, pear and acacia blossom. There is fine intensity to the racy and pure medium weight flavors that possess both a lovely texture and ample minerality on the clean, very dry and chiseled finish that displays a touch of youthful austerity. This too is quite tightly wound and will need at least a few years of patience first.

(this limited two barrel cuvée is crafted from 70+ year old vines that abut the Musigny climat which is also called La Combe d'Orveau and is a monopole of Domaine Jacques Prieur)

iron and mocha

The 2013 Gattinara Valferana is super-expressive today

The 2009 Sigalas-Rabaud has a rather light bouquet that lacks the intensity of its peers

The 2018 Chardonnay Bien Nacido Vineyard is fabulous

mineral driven fruit quality that sticks with you here

(from both the upper and lower portions of the vineyard)

This vintage represents the 20th anniversary of this wine (the first vintage produced was 1992) although this special single-vineyard has been in family hands since 1435 (you read that correctly)

A classic Vosne nose of spicy violet suffused red and blue pinot fruit where the spiciness carries over to the supple middle weight sour cherry-infused flavors that possess a firm tannic spine and a hint of rusticity on the otherwise balanced and long finish

plum and cassis notes that really stick with you

mocha and cassis

Fresh fruit and not too much obvious tannin