Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet Les Folatières Premier Cru 2022

An iconic Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru with aromas of lemon curd, white peach, pear, white flowers, toasted hazelnut, flint, and crushed stone. Richly textured yet incredibly precise, it delivers vibrant acidity, chalky minerality, remarkable elegance, and extraordinary aging potential.

Food Pairing: Pair with lobster, grilled scallops, turbot, roast chicken, creamy mushroom risotto, aged Comté, or goat cheese.

95 Points - Wine Spectator

A laserlike backbone drives this racy white, along with flavors of lime blossoms, lemon, vanilla and smoky mineral. Clean and incisive, with fine intensity on the long aftertaste of citrus, mineral and baking spices.

94 Points - Vinous

The 2022 Puligny-Montrachet Les Folatières 1er Cru has slightly richer fruit than the Clavaillon. Scents of wild honey infuse the citrus fruit, again, with plenty of energy and tension coming through. The palate is nicely balanced with white peach and apricot, a keen thread of acidity, and a very harmonious, lingering and seductive finish. What a beautiful Folatières!

93 Points - Jasper Morris

A touch more colour and certainly more energy. Just a light gunflint reduction on pleasingly yellow fruit, yet with detail and subtlety. Here there is cream in the middle compared to the leaner clean cut Clavoillon. Softer at the finish but the generosity is balanced. Tangy touch to finish.

93 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2022 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Folatières has also turned out very nicely, mingling aromas of pear and orange oil with notions of freshly baked bread, struck match and warm stones. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and seamless, it's bright and ethereal, with a long, saline finish.