The 2015 Puligny-Montrachet Les Referts 1er Cru has a very austere, slightly malic nose with hints of dewy green apple and fresh pear. It lacks some intensity but at least it has typicité . The palate is very fresh and saline - brisk and breezy, you might say-- with a strong marine influence toward the finish. I appreciate the crescendo in this Les Referts and way it ends with a bang! Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.

Bright lemon-yellow. Pure, subdued nose smells vibrant. The densest and sweetest 2015 to this point, offering fat, fully ripe flavors of peach and saline minerality. No blockage of maturity here! This shapely wine is quite dry and a bit youthfully aggressive but the dusty finish conveys an impression of serious dry extract. From a yield of 40 hectoliters per hectare, according to Marc Bachelet.

Lovely dusty/stony nose, delicate fruit and a light herbal note with the merest hint of cedary oak. Deep-fruited and surprisingly rounded, though persistent, on the finish. (JH)