Etienne Sauzet Puligny-Montrachet Champ-Gain 2017

Expressive fruit bomb of a nose, offering scents of lemon oil, white peach and hazelnut. Suave in texture but quite dry, even a bit austere, showing good mineral and floral lift. Finishes tactile, lightly saline and persistent, with a note of crushed stone. This appears to be evolving slowly.

Once again there is a vague whiff of the exotic sitting atop the white and green fruit aromas that include mandarin orange, passion fruit and a hint of peach. The sleek, intense and lively middle weight flavors exude evident minerality and salinity on the delicious if slightly lean and slightly short finish. This austere effort is also sufficiently firmly structured that it may well flesh out but it's also going to have to add more depth.