Francois Carillon Puligny-Montrachet Les Combettes 2016

Bright yellow. Less relentlessly about fruit than most of the preceding samples, offering aromas of ripe peach, musky hazelnut and fresh herbs. Quite smooth and ripe, even a touch warm, but showing better definition than the other premier crus here today. A more rectilinear wine, finishing with good length. Nicely combines power and elegance.

Young vines. Matured in 23% new oak. Tank sample. Pale straw. Light as air, lots of chewy texture and raciness. Bone dry and rather noble. Minerals and citrus. Dense. 

The Combettes offers up a richer nose than the Folatieres, with aromas of pear and preserved lemon mingling with hazelnut and toasted wheat. On the palate the wine is more hulking and four-square, with serious depth, dimension and length.