2016 Puligny Montrachet Les Perrieres

Pale, bright yellow. A bit deeper-pitched and more subdued on the nose than the Combettes, offering scents of fresh apricot, peach, vanillin oak and spices. Fat, pliant and broad, with its fruit sweetness leavened by saline minerality. Finishes reasonably firm, with good length and lift. This wine shows more mineral energy here than the Champs-Gains or Combettes.

Bright yellow. Less expressive on the nose than the Combettes, offering notes of orange and plum brandy. Less generous but more minerally in the mouth, conveying an impression of firmer acidity than most of the other 2016s at this address. Still a bit aggressive on the end, but with a firming mineral touch.