Alain Chavy Puligny-Montrachet 2016
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The Puligny Montrachet from Alain Chavy is bursting with ripe tropical fruit characters, balanced by a concentrated limey acidity and a touch of spicy oak.The wine can be enjoyed with a broad variety of dishes from delicately flavored fish dishes to chicken and pork.
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It may be the old vines, planted between 1965 and 1974, that contribute to this wine’s mineral grip, or the cold in Chavy’s deep cellars that points up the wine’s depths of lemon and zesty lime flavors. The wine is powerfully reduced at first, a tight flintlock that doesn’t hide the intensity of its flavors, but seals them off. Rich in rockiness, subtle in its vanilla and cream notes, this is a village wine that’s structured to age.
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The sons of Gerald Chavy have split their fathers holdings into two domains. They remain one of handful of growers that still reside in Puligny. Most domains are now owned by outsiders. Decanter Magazine selected both Alain and Jean Louis Chavy as one of 'the most improved domaines in Burgundy. Great vineyard sites, especially the Folatieres. The other other grower in Clavoillons is Domaine Lefaive. Alain owns 6.5 hectares of splendid vineyards. Alain makes restrained style of Puligny with ripe fruit balanced by crisp acidity, which are designed to long aging. Almost no chemicals are used in the vineyards apart for protection against mildew. All grapes are hand harvested, pressed and fermented in barrel at not more than 25 degrees.