2022 Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru Les Combettes Etienne Sauzet, Burgund (1,5l)

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2022 Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru Les Combettes, Etienne Sauzet

The 2022 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Combettes is terrific, offering up aromas of pear, citrus zest, white flowers, toasted nuts and fresh mint, followed by a medium to full-bodied, satiny and layered palate that's dense and structured, with racy acids and chalky grip. I suspect it may surpass even the excellent 2020 version. - William Kelley, Jan. 2024

Allen Meadows' Burghound - 2022 Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru Les Combettes, Etienne Sauzet

Cool, airy and strikingly elegant aromas display a broad array of floral elements that are laced with hints of citrus, wet stone, spice and an admirably discreet touch of oak. The super-sleek and again almost painfully intense middle weight flavors are a combination of power and refinement, all wrapped in a wonderfully long and impeccably well-balanced finale. This is textbook Combettes and seriously good not to mention entirely ageworthy. - Allen Meadows, June 2024

Vinous - 2022 Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru Les Combettes, Etienne Sauzet

The 2022 Puligny-Montrachet Les Combettes 1er Cru has a clean, precise bouquet with wet limestone, Granny Smith apples, menthol and light sea spray scents that could only originate from this appellation. The palate is very well-balanced, one of the most powerful of Sauzet's Premier Crus. It possesses perhaps its spiciest and most texturally satisfying finishes that lingers long in the mouth. Excellent. - Neil Martin, Nov. 2023