Francois Carillon, Puligny Montrachet Clos Vieux Chateau Vintage:2020 cherry pip and salted red

cherry pip and salted red licorice

The main message here is elegance and this wine is profoundly eloquent on the subject

It finishes in convincing style considering the growing season

An intensely earthy yet elegant red berry fruit nose trimmed in an appealing touch of minerality that continues onto the delicious

with a brooding feel to aromas and flavors of anise

Francois Carillon, Puligny Montrachet Clos Vieux Chateau Vintage:2020 cherry pip and salted red(from a . 78 ha parcel that is a monopole of the domaine). This is the first wine to display any appreciable reduction and its enough to completely overshadow the underlying fruit. More interesting are the nicely detailed and tension filled middle weight flavors that possess solid if not exceptional volume and density while displaying fine length on the youthfully austere, clean and dry finale. This could use better depth, but a few years of cellaring