Type: White Wine
Country: France
Region: Burgundy
Code: PULI023
The Sauzet estate owns 1.4ha at the heart of the Perrières vineyard, on the Meursault side, with a great aspect and a thinner calcareous soil structure, just 80cm deep, giving long lived wines with wonderful finesse.
This is an En Primeur wine and special conditions apply.

Domaine Etienne Sauzet

Gerard Boudot, son-in-law of the late Etienne Sauzet, is one of the star winemakers of this appellation, now supported by his daughter Emilie and her husband, Benoit Riffault. This small, 8 hectare, bio-dynamically farmed domaine, produces wines of great definition and style and are highly sought after. The wines are left on their lees for 10 months with 20% new oak for Puligny Village. Farmed organically since 2006, the family subsequently moved to bio-dynamic status in 2010. The 1er C...

The bouquet is intense, slightly unyielding at first, but opens after a short while, showing rich ripe honey, cashew, almond and peach flavours, layered with dessert apple and some oak, centred within a structure of racy fresh acidity, saline and intense minerality.
Hand-picked and yielding 45hl/ha this wine benefited from 20% new oak with the remaining barrels 1-4 years old.

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