2021 Domaine Philippe Chavy Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Pucelles Alto Adige 7ha and hardly anything domaine-bottled

7ha and hardly anything domaine-bottled

low- or no-sulphur winemaking is allied to obsessively careful vineyard management and a deep understanding of Jules Chauvet's methods for working with gamay

The woody touch is already divinely well integrated

The 2017 vintage is one of the driest on records

2021 Domaine Philippe Chavy Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Pucelles Alto Adige 7ha and hardly anything domaine-bottledPhilippe, who is a cousin of Alain and Jean Louis, runs his domaine of 6ha less than it used to be after some leases expired from most unprepossessing looking premises, a long shed that looks as if it would be more at home in a light industrial zone. So I was not expecting too much when I tasted there for the first time in February 2021. I was mistaken! Philippes first vinification was in 1990, taken over entirely from his father in 2002. He is not