Francois Carillon, Puligny Montrachet Clos Vieux Chateau Vintage:2020 cherry pip and salted red

cherry pip and salted red licorice

with its dense and muscular big-bodied flavors that terminate in a beautifully complex if mildly edgy and dry finale

with a brooding feel to aromas and flavors of anise

which imparts a wonderfully seductive character to the textured and classy broad-shouldered flavors that possess excellent mid-palate fat on the opulent

It bursts from the glass with scents of pear

Francois Carillon, Puligny Montrachet Clos Vieux Chateau Vintage:2020 cherry pip and salted red(from a . 78 ha parcel that is a monopole of the domaine). This is the first wine to display any appreciable reduction and its enough to completely overshadow the underlying fruit. More interesting are the nicely detailed and tension filled middle weight flavors that possess solid if not exceptional volume and density while displaying fine length on the youthfully austere, clean and dry finale. This could use better depth, but a few years of cellaring