2009 Joseph Drouhin Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Folatières

Community Tasting Notes (34) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  12/16/2021 - DoubleMagnum Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Aside from getting a touch darker and gaining some weight, not much has changed since I had this three years ago. The nose is full of orchard fruit, honey and honeycomb. The attack is stronger than I remember and the acidity has gone down a little bit. Not flabby by any means however. The finish is long and dry. This has developed beautifully and is ready to pop.

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  12/25/2020 - Shanta wrote:

  Fully developed and a wine to drink up now, but this bottle was excellent. Mid gold. Any fruit fleshiness has long dropped out (not that these are an exercise in varietal fruit flavours) to leave a nose of high toned aromatics shot through with a tracery of floral, spice and other fleeting notes. Then a stoney palate with a tight, linear structure, tension, energy and acidic cut. Elegant and special.

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  8/18/2019 - 2020 Does not like this wine:

  As previously noted in other reviews, the color on this is quite advanced. It was definitely very golden.
  
  Regarding flavor, there was absolutely no fruit left. If you swirled the glass, there were aromas. As soon as it stopped swirling, you only had the smell of alcohol. Odd, and not enjoyable.
  
  Maybe my fault for waiting too long, but I had one on the 4th of July and it was excellent. Both were well stored, kept in a cellar. I couldn’t finish the second half of the bottle and dumped it. Ouch.

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  12/1/2018 - DoubleMagnum Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Bought at the Domaine in Beaune. A lot more developed in color than I expected. Luckily, no premox. Nose of peaches and other orchard fruits, light butter and hints of honey. This is in an interesting stage. It should be reaching full maturity within a year or two. After that I feel the decline will start. Good density, good amount of extract, pronounced acidity, and good length. If the attack was fiercer and more persistant this would be a great wine. It is very good, but misses those points to make it great. It still beat Rita's Crown.

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  11/26/2018 - jmoore431 wrote: 90 Points

  Like others' notes indicate, the color is quite deep on this and the wine is fully mature. Last time I had it blind against a same-year and vineyard Jadot. Having been told one was the Jadot and the other the Drouhin, I guessed the more developed wine to be the Jadot (based on my experiences with both houses). I was wrong then and am still shocked that this wine is so advanced. It has begun its decline though still very good (if you like your WB to be showing age).

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