2004 Etienne Sauzet Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Folatières

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 89.8 points

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  7/30/2022 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Promisingly light silver-gold colour. Nose is fresh, lifted lemony citrus acidity, more lime and lemon juice than skins. On the palate the first impression is of fresh lemony citric cut but the is a very slight almond bitterness that immediately follows. Some minerality but it is drowned out by the bitter tone. Some power and length on the finish with a pleasant moderate resonance after the final swallow. However, one member in the orchestra seems to be playing off-key here. The good news is that there is no sign of the dreaded pre-mox in this bottle… it has all the appropriate freshness for a P-M of this age. It just seems that the winemaking is lacking a bit of finesse.

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  3/10/2021 - WineDoctors wrote: 89 Points

  Not sure worth waiting for. Golden,color to rim, unripe/green favors I am fond of. Medium finish. High acid, med + odied. Lemon zest, right, chamomile and green apple. Still has life but not aging potential.

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  3/28/2020 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 91 Points

  My Birthday Dinner (The Library, Crown Wine Cellars, Shouson Hill, Hong Kong): Briefly decanted, which it needed to coax it out at first. Light lemon gold colour. Discreet and subdued nose of white shoe cream, lemon boiled sweets and fresh grated lemon rind although some fresh hazelnut and light honeysuckle emerged after a couple of hours as it warmed up in the glass. Palate is very rounded lemony pebbles, very pronounced confit lemon and tangy mandarin orange, flinty minerals. On the finish, this had a really high piano notes resonance and then a more bass-toned growling reverberance. It got more honeyed and rounded over 3 hours in the glass. Has fleshed out since I last drank it almost exactly 2 years ago, when it was a bit more high-toned. But it still needs the nose to catch up with the plate.

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  3/25/2018 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Sunday Lunch at Crown Wine Cellars (Crown Wine Cellars, 18 Deep Water Bay Drive, Shouson Hill, Hong Kong): Two bottles decanted and drank slowly over a an hour or two with a big plate of Fin De Clair oysters. Very light yellow gold. Nose is light fresh almond, squeezed lemon skin, salty butter...then seguing into fresh hazelnuts...complex and beguiling in a light, lifted way. Palate is lovely lemon juice and salted butter, hazelnut, beautiful lemony acidic freshness on the back of the palate. With extended time in the glass it develops a more rounded pebbly and minerally character. Super resonance and reverberance on the finish. Very complete and with many years ahead of it.

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  1/13/2018 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Mid gold
  A distinct evolved savoury nose with earth, button mushroom, chalky and steel cables. Touch oyster shell.
  The entry shows crisp, quivering acidity giving precision and frame to the wine. The mid palate has some richer textures with lemon-honey, mineral and peeks of just-ripe stone fruit.
  Whilst I enjoy my acidity, there seems to be a slight green edge to the stone fruit. It hasn't the mid-palate depth or intensity, and there is some obvious development. Perhaps seen better days and possibly a little lean.

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