Etienne Sauzet Puligny-Montrachet Champ-Gain 2018

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.

Pretty and ripe yet airy aromas are comprised by notes of mostly white fleshed fruit cut with hints of lemon peel, petrol and a whiff of acacia blossom. Here too there is reasonably good density to the delicious and attractively textured flavors that are a bit less overtly mineral on the clean dry and persistent finish. This well-balanced effort should also repay mid-term cellaring.