Critic ratings
vinous
2019
Rating:
90
–92
The 2019 Puligny-Montrachet Clos du Cailleret 1er Cru is taut and focused on the nose: scents of lemon thyme and crushed stone, just a little liquorice in the background. The palate is very well balanced with a vibrant entry, quite rich and powerful with a lightly spiced finish. It does miss a little nervosité compared to its peers although there is fine persistence on the aftertaste.
vinous
2020
Rating:
91
–93
The 2020 Puligny-Montrachet Clos du Cailleret 1er Cru has a gentle, well-defined bouquet that slowly unfurls in the glass, green apple and light nettle scents intermixed with crushed stone. The palate is well balanced with a little more tension than the Folatières, very harmonious with discrete tropical notes (apricots) surfacing towards the finish. Peachy aftertaste! Seductive.
robert_parker
2021
Rating:
89
–91
Matured in a 350-liter barrel and a glass wine globe, the 2021 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clos du Cailleret offers up notes of orange and lime zest mingled with white flowers and nutmeg. Medium to full-bodied, ample and fleshy, it's giving and open-knit, with a moderately persistent finish.
robert_parker
2019
Rating:
90
–92
The 2019 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clos du Cailleret offers up aromas of pear, white flowers, pastry cream and blanched almonds. Medium to full-bodied, racy and chiseled, it shares the tangy, precise profile of the domaine's Folatières but carries a touch more flesh on its structural bones.
robert_parker
2018
Rating:
92
–94
The 2018 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clos du Cailleret is also showing very well, exhibiting notes of citrus oil, fresh pastry, crisp green orchard fruit and a subtle framing of new oak. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, satiny and enveloping, with racy acids, chalky structure and a beautifully defined finish.
robert_parker
2017
Rating:
92
–94
The 2017 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clos du Cailleret is excellent, unwinding in the glass with a classy bouquet of beeswax, crisp orchard fruit, pastry cream, citrus oil and white flowers. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, with a fleshier, broader-shouldered profile than the Caillerets, though it's just as pure and incisive, concluding with a long, focused finish.
robert_parker
2016
Rating:
92
–92
The 2016 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clos du Cailleret has a little more richness on the nose than the Folatières with scents of wild honey and a hint of melted butter, the latter ebbing with aeration to reveal more floral scents. The palate is very well balanced with a fine line of acidity and it demonstrates a little more salinité than the Folatières at the moment. Excellent.
robert_parker
2015
Rating:
90
–92
The 2015 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clos des Cailleret has more tension and mineralité on the nose compared to the Puligny Folatières: touches of cold flint and granite infusing the citrus fruit all with fine delineation. The palate is well balanced with fine delineation, nicely integrated oak with touches of orange zest and fresh pear towards the sustained finish. It is certainly worth looking out for.
robert_parker
2014
Rating:
93
–93
The 2014 Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru Clos du Caillerets, from vines planted in 1947, has a very different nose to the Folatières with apple blossom, white peach and apricot scents. The palate is underpinned by a keen salinity, very structured with more mineral/limestone towards the finish. This is another superb white from Thierry, perhaps even more bewitching than the Folatières.
robert_parker
1999
Rating:
86
–86
The 1999 Puligny-Montrachet Clos du Cailleret has smoke and talcum powder aromas and a light to medium-bodied personality. Well-balanced and fresh, this lemony wine also suffers from a short, tight finish.
Importer: Weygandt-Metzler, Peter Weygandt, Unionville, PA; tel. (610) 486-0800.
vinous
2017
Rating:
93
–93
The 2017 Puligny-Montrachet Clos du Cailleret 1er Cru was picked September 1 and matured in 50% new oak. It has a delightful, complex bouquet with scents of lime flower, crushed stone and light white peach aromas neatly enmeshed with the oak. The precise palate is beautifully balanced, with a fine thread of acidity and an expressive, mineral-driven finish. This is certainly the better of the two Pulignys from Domaine des Lambrays.
vinous
2018
Rating:
86
–88
The 2018 Puligny-Montrachet Clos du Cailleret 1er Cru has more brightness on the nose compared to the Les Folatières, offering lime, hints of passion fruit and citrus peel. The palate is well balanced with a saline entry, modest complexity and a little more energy and tension on the finish than the Folatières, but it still lags behind its peers.