2019 Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru Les Folatières En la Richarde Etienne Sauzet, Burgund (0,75l)

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2019 Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru Les Folatières En la Richarde, Etienne Sauzet

Sauzet's 2019 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Folatières En la Richarde mingles notes of crisp yellow apple and pear with hints of white flowers, honeycomb and hazelnuts. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and enveloping, it's textural and generous, with chalky structuring extract and ripe acids, concluding with a perfumed finish. In 2018, this was one of the more dramatic, sun-kissed whites in the Sauzet portfolio, and that's the case once again in 2019. - William Kelley, Jan. 2021

Allen Meadows' Burghound - 2019 Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru Les Folatières En la Richarde, Etienne Sauzet

Here the expressive nose flirts with the exotic with its notes of both white and yellow peach, passion fruit and hints of jasmine tea and dried apricot. There is fine precision and underlying tension to the sappy medium-bodied flavors that also exude a bracing salinity on the clean, very dry and compact finale. Like the Champ Canet, there is a chalky character that slowly emerges on the attractively refined finish. Lovely stuff with excellent develop potential. - Allen Meadows, June 2021

Vinous - 2019 Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru Les Folatières En la Richarde, Etienne Sauzet

The 2019 Puligny-Montrachet Les Folatières En La Richards 1er Cru, which comes from a single plot of 50-year-old vines, has one of the most precise and delineated bouquets among Sauzet’s Premier Crus with a heightened sense of mineralité. The palate is very well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, taut and fresh, very saline in the mouth with a spicy aftertaste. I find this quite mercurial, constantly changing in the glass, making this one of Sauzet’s most intriguing offerings this vintage. - Neal Martin, Dec. 2020