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- Bzikot Puligny Montrachet Cuvee De La Maison 2010 Product #24384 (In Stock)
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"Cuvee de la Maison" - the blend of the House - is two barrels of Puligny Montrachet Doug selected from 9 Sylvain Bzikot made in 2010 from the fine Les Petites Nosroyes vineyard. From first opening, generous aromas of lemon curd, grilled pineapple, apricot, fresh butter, toasted nut, crushed mint, and a light touch of toasted oak. In the mouth, the perfect balance of richness, minerality, and cut that we love in top white Burgundy. The palate has the wonderful transparency critics are raving about in 2010, with pure flavors of lemon, golden apple, tangy pineapple, chervil and mint, and wet stones. The aromas and flavors are all about purity and balance, but there’s a sneaky richness here and the weight of a top 1er Cru. I love everything about the wine, but I’m most excited about the finish, which is just fantastically long and pure and mouthwatering as the lemon curd, pineapple, grilled nut, butter, and mineral flavors go on and on and on.
This is a baby today, and if you decant it (or wait a few years in cellar), you’ll find greater depths of flavor, more richness, and a growing sense of power to go with the precise, almost translucent, flavors and palate sense. What you won’t find is a heavy sense of oak, because even though this wine was raised in two brand new (if lightly toasted) French oak barrels, the concentrated fruit Sylvain farmed in the Les Petites Nosroyes vineyard has gobbled up the wood and shines through with freshness, precision, and verve. I love this stuff, and hope you will too. - Bzikot Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru Les Folatieres 2009 Product #25156 (In Stock)
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Sylvan considers this his top wine, and I know folks who have served it blind against Leflaive's Folatieres and seen most people prefer it. Certainly, he has crafted a wonderful wine in 2009. As you'd expect, here you'll find plenty of 2009's big ripeness here, but also the fine acid/mineral character of classic white Burgundy. Apple and stone fruits, a touch of lime skin, fresh butter and hazelnut flavors and aromas all swirl in a smooth-textured wine with just the right amount of acidity at the end. Enjoyable now with rich foods and sure to improve over the next 5-10 years.
- Bzikot Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru Les Perrieres 2009 Product #25157 (In Stock)
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While Sylvan considers Folatieres his best wine, year-after-year, it's the 1er Cru Les Perrieres that takes the prize for me. Perhaps a smidge less concentrated than Folatieres, but even more mineral, precise, and defined to my taste. A wonderfully complex nose of chalk, limestone, lime, apple, and a bunch of other stuff I can't name. In the mouth, the wine is pure and deep with ripe stone fruit, melon, minerals, and emerging nut and fresh butter notes. Long and very persistent on the finish. A great wine, but not much at all available.
- Bzikot Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru Les Folatieres 2010 Product #26480 (In Stock)
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As Clive Coates says, "Folatieres is a fullish, meaty, mineral wine with plenty of weight of fruit and good grip - a typical Puligny permier cru, in fact." Sylvain Bzikot's Folatieres is among the best I know with the fine acid/mineral character of a classic white Burgundy vintage in a nicely round, accessible, package. Apple and stone fruits, a touch of lime skin, fresh butter and hazelnut flavors and aromas all swirl in a smooth-textured wine with just the right amount of acidity at the end. The expected rich and creamy texture is a touch more translucent, precise, and pure in the excellent 2010 vintage, making this the most delicious example of Folatieres from Sylvain yet.
I know people who have put this in blind tastings with Domaine Leflaive's Folatieres (selling for 3x the price) and seen Sylvain's come out on top! Enjoyable now with rich foods and sure to improve over the next 10+ years. - Bzikot Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru Les Perrieres 2010 Product #26481 (In Stock)
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One of Sylvain Bzikot's two 1er Cru vineyards lies in Les Perrieres, a fine site on the border with Meursault. As always, loads of chalky mineral here on the nose and palate, joined with scents of limestone, lime, apple, and citrus. Pure and focused on the attack, the butter, stone fruit, melon, toasted nut and citrus flavors broaden and gain richness across your tongue before snapping back with intensity on the dry, vibrant, finish. A complex, compelling, wine to taste now and cellar for 10-15 years if you choose.
