Allen Meadows' Burghound, July 2009
(from a huge 3.25 ha plot in Ladoix-Serrigny). A cool, airy, complex and gorgeously elegant
nose is more restrained than these Puligny-based grands crus while offering up notes of green apple, pain grillé, stone and
very subtle spice notes that merge into rich, full and impressively powerful flavors that possess perhaps the best dry extract
levels of any wine in the range as they really stain the palate on the intense, long and bone dry finish that seems to have no
end. There isn’t quite as much overall depth here as in the Montrachet but otherwise, this succeeds in going to toe to toe,
which is not small feat given how good the prior wine is.
96 points
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