The 2024 Clos de la Pucelle is a brilliant wine in the making. The wine’s aromatic constellation is elegant and complex, delivering scents of pear, golden delicious apple, lemon zest, crème pâtissière, apple blossoms, vanillin oak and a stunning foundation of chalky soil tones. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, crisp, complex and utterly refined in personality, with a beautiful core of succulent fruit, even better backend mineral drive, vibrant acids and a very long, seamlessly balanced and youthfully complex finish. This is a brilliant premier cru in the making, but it will demand some cellaring time to blossom properly. 2030-2060.

Note: a 1.16 ha monopole of the domaine though some production is sold to others. A more perfumed nose speaks of honeysuckle, acacia blossom, the essence of pear and a discreet dollop of wood. There is again very good volume to the utterly delicious and highly seductive flavors that manage to be at once succulent yet surprisingly powerful while exhibiting very fine length on the dry, youthfully austere and lengthy finish. This is really quite classy and a wine that should amply repay up to a decade of keeping.*Burghound Outstanding!*

Fresh lemon yellow with a green tint, rather more backward on the nose. Still working itself out. There is more structure here but less appeal in youth. The Clos de la Pucelle offers good tension, but this will take time. I am not yet seeing the electric backbone that this wine can have. Drink from 2030-2036. Tasted Oct 2025.