Les Referts Puligny-Montrachet Chardonnay

Wow. JJ Girards’s high end white burgundies are the pretzels! Just an incredible nose of hazelnut, spices, minerals, green apple, melon, anise, some herbs and more. Just outrageously complex and deep. Gorgeous clear citrus like pink grapefruit and mineola oranges. A skoche of unreal engaging sweet wood. Just incredible nose that is so detailed and precise. 9.8 nose. Really compelling here. Palate is just as incredible. So spicey and complex with on point acidity and unreal sweet meyer lemon fruit. Round yet so intense and unreal purity and freshness with a finish that weaves and bobs along one’s palate. Unreal length and freshness. With air I am sure this will improve vastly offering more complexity and depth. But it’s hard to imagine as on pop and pour it is remarkable. Now with air the nose gets even more incredible and deep with unreal baking spices and hazelnuts that are so vivid one can’t believe there are real hazelnut and baking spices in the glass. It’s so layered and serene. This is a confident wine strutting its stuff. The palate is just so harmonious and also long and lingering and as it airs the structure becomes more apparent and the finish gets salty. Wow the purity and lemon drop affectations and the unreal tanginess is just awesome. This is one of my favorite sites and can compete with Grand Cru and this example shows why.