1996 Louis Carillon Puligny-Montrachet

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  7/7/2022 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  Sushi wines (Chicago, IL): An absolutely stunning bottle of "lowly" white Burgundy, from the ultimate premox vintage, but fresh as a daisy. In fact, this uncharacteristically (for Carillon) has a reductive note on the nose, but it's not the type from copious sulphur use. A bit of a savoury/umami note on the nose that you can find in old white Burgundies from this era. The palate still shows white fruit and plenty of taut acidity. In fact, this needed time to loosen up, and in fact grew in scale over the course of the night. Hard to imagine this being but a villages wine.

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  7/29/2020 - jchan1 wrote: 88 Points

  Butter, yellow fruits, popcorn. A little shy on the palate with noticeable reduction. Youthful with soaring acidity. Good village.

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  3/11/2013 - french16 wrote:

  Fresh butter, nutty, pear/orange with a great salinity, a hint of caramel. There's also a light touch of oxidation that actually improves with more air. The palate is really vibrant with a great acidity. Some lime zest, lemon, well used oak and again this refreshing salinity (kind of the one I usually find on Jura chardonnays) cutting the roundness of the wine.
  Overall I really liked this wine and I thought the light oxidation was actually more an oxidative note than oxidation. In any case, a nice 17 years-old Puligny village.

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  7/26/2011 - Alex H wrote: 87 Points

  Young fleshy white despite it's age. This is just an adolescent with years on it still. Some white oats and almond nuts and cooked lentils. Nice deep flavors And broad mid palate.

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  7/19/2011 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points

  Dim Sum Club goes Japanese (Kingyo, Marina Square): This was an extremely impressive vintage. Still going strong at age 15, it had a rich, layered bouquet with notes of cream, fleshy white fruit, some flowers and a whiff of smoky mineral. Nice stuff, somewhat straddling Puligny and Meursault. The palate had tons of depth for a village, with lovely fresh acidity reflecting the vintage running through rich flavours of white fruit, cream and some savoury nutty notes which wound their way into a long, minerally end. The wine was at a very nice place now. It may lack the breadth and complexity of a good 1er Cru, but this was about as good as village one could wish for. It certainly did the wine's cause no harm either that it went wonderfully well with a range of fatty-fish sushi.

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