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Review	Product Name	Vintage	Rating	Date Sort ascending	Favorite
Domaine Alain Chavy - Wine & Spirits	Puligny-Montrachet Les Folatières 1er Cru	2017	94	Apr-2020
Review “As bright and fragrant after three days open as it is when the cork is first pulled, this Puligny keeps yielding complex flavors and savory mineral depths. Chavy farms 3.5 acres in Folatières, his oldest vines dating to 1960. The wine’s structure is racy and refined, turning the luscious texture toward gracious restraint— all satin beeswax-lemon compression at the starting line of a long life.”
Domaine Alain Chavy - Vinous	Puligny-Montrachet Les Clavoillons 1er Cru 2018	2018	90-92	Jan-2020
Review “The 2018 Puligny-Montrachet Clavoillons 1er Cru comes from 0.50 hectares of 60-year-old vines and sees around 35% new oak. It has a little more detail and stoniness on the nose compared directly with the Champ Gains. The palate is very well balanced, with orange pith, lime, a pinch of white pepper and flinty notes toward the sustained finish. It might need a little more depth considering the climat in question, although it does reveal a very pleasant fiery quality on the aftertaste.”
Domaine Alain Chavy - Vinous	Saint-Aubin En Remilly 1er Cru 2018	2018	88-90	Jan-2020
Review “The 2018 Saint-Aubin En Remilly 1er Cru comes from vines planted in 1997 and is matured in 30% new oak. The floral bouquet reveals scents of cold limestone percolating through the malic fruit. The palate is quite rounded on the entry, offering notes of orange pith and lime. It has a slightly powdery texture, especially toward the finish, and good weight and persistence. Maybe I err toward the Puligny Charmes, which seems to demonstrate more mineralité at the moment.”
Domaine Alain Chavy - Vinous	Puligny-Montrachet Les Charmes 2018	2018	90-92	Jan-2020
Review “The 2018 Puligny-Montrachet les Charmes comes from two parcels. Often one of the hidden gems from Chavy’s range, this has a delightful bouquet that displays much more delineation and mineralité compared to the Village Cru. The palate is very well balanced with a pretty, slightly peachy opening and subtle spicy notes. This is not a complex Puligny, but it is very harmonious, with impressive persistence on the brioche-tinged finish. Recommended.”
Domaine Alain Chavy - Vinous	Puligny-Montrachet Les Folatières 1er Cru 2018	2018	90-92	Jan-2020
Review “The 2018 Puligny-Montrachet les Folatières 1er Cru is a step up from les Pucelles this year in terms of terroir expression and mineralité on the bouquet, which grabs the olfactory sense by its lapels and demands attention. The palate is much more elegant than I expected, with vibrant citrus fruit, but it needs a little more tension and terroir expression to show through on the finish. Fine, but maybe not the best Folatières I have tasted at the domaine.”
Domaine Alain Chavy - Vinous	Puligny-Montrachet Champs Gains 1er Cru 2018	2018	89-91	Jan-2020
Review “The 2018 Puligny-Montrachet Champs Gains 1er Cru, matured in around 35% new oak, has quite an understated bouquet of pineapple and light lemon curd aromas, hints of pear developing with time in the glass. The palate is very well balanced, with what you might call a gentle opening and an appealing saline undercurrent. It does not quite offer the laser-like precision of say, Chavy-Chouet (tasted during the previous visit), but there is fine persistence here.”
Domaine Alain Chavy - Vinous	Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru 2018	2018	93-95	Jan-2020
Review “The 2018 Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru is (as usual) an exchange of juice with Jean-Michel Chartron - one barrel for two barrels of Folatières and three barrels of Puligny Villages. It has a clean, precise bouquet, cold, wet limestone intermingling with citrus lemon and subtle smoky aromas. Not intense, but very focused. The palate is fresh and vibrant on the entry, and then the purity takes over – and boy, this is a very pure Chevalier-Montrachet, offering lemon curd, peach skin, pineapple and crushed stone notes. It feels very long but at the same time quite tender. A lovely Chevalier-Montrachet from Chavy.”
Domaine Alain Chavy - Vinous	Puligny-Montrachet Les Pucelles 1er Cru 2018	2018	91-93	Jan-2020
Review “The 2018 Puligny-Montrachet les Pucelles 1er Cru has an appealing bouquet of pineapple, orange pith and light wet pavement/petrichor aromas. The palate has better salinity on the entry compared to the Clavoillons, imparting more tension and energy. The finish has a "licked limestone" quality, which can only be explained if you go out and lick a piece of limestone to experience the tingling sensation. Excellent.”
Domaine Alain Chavy - Wine & Spirits	Puligny-Montrachet Les Folatières 1er Cru	2016	93	Apr-2019
Review “Alain Chavy’s holdings on the high slope of Folatières seem to dovetail with his winemaking style: He inoculates his fermentations, and limits lees stirring; the wines age in the cold of a deep cellar, in a mix of 400-liter puncheons and 228-liter barrels. This is a 2016 with wholesome fruit, a silken range of pear, apple and apricot lasting past a complex wave of mineral salts that washes over the finish. It’s savory and layered, a wine with staying power and grace.”
Domaine Alain Chavy - Wine & Spirits	Puligny-Montrachet	2016	93	Apr-2019
Review “It may be the old vines, planted between 1965 and 1974, that contribute to this wine’s mineral grip, or the cold in Chavy’s deep cellars that points up the wine’s depths of lemon and zesty lime flavors. The wine is powerfully reduced at first, a tight flintlock that doesn’t hide the intensity of its flavors, but seals them off. Rich in rockiness, subtle in its vanilla and cream notes, this is a village wine that’s structured to age.”

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