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Benoit Ente Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru Les Folatieres En La Richarde 2020 [NET]

$44999

Benoit Ente, brother of the cult Meursault producer Arnaud Ente, has quietly built one of Puligny-Montrachet's most precise addresses. En La Richarde sits up at the top of Les Folatières, just beneath Chevalier-Montrachet on stratified limestone at altitude. It is one of the most ethereal, mineral-driven climats in all of Puligny. This is a tiny-production white Burgundy with the kind of cut and verticality the address suggests, requiring patience to show its full hand.

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Burghound

94 points

"Outstanding. Smoky aromas include those of lemon-lime, white fleshed fruit and a plenitude of floral elements. There is even better volume to the concentrated and mineral-driven larger-scaled flavors that flash excellent power on the sappy yet fine bitter lemon-inflected finish. This is also really quite lovely and a wine that should amply repay a decade plus of keeping, perhaps even a bit more as the balance is impeccable." —Allen Meadows

More about Benoit Ente

Benoit Ente is in the right line of work. He is a top producer, one of those rare winemakers who makes great wines even in borderline vintages. In 2021 - an outstanding vintage for white Burgundy - he made absolutely brilliant wines.

A careful farmer, Benoit believes that controlling yields in the vineyard is the way to achieve the perfect acid-sugar balance necessary to make great white Burgundies. Once he has grown and harvested perfect grapes – early, to guarantee crisp acidity – he can easily perform the kind of non-interventionist winemaking that he likes. The results are stunning: wines of purity and balance.

Benoit inherited a tiny 2.4 hectare domaine in Puligny Montrachet which includes some great premier crus. Arnaud Ente, the Meursault specialist who studied under Coche, is Benoit's brother. Like Arnaud, Benoit's wines age very well. He uses less new oak than his brother and employs virtually no battonage. The wines spend 12 months in oak and then 6 more in stainless steel--this is as true for his Aligote as it is his Folatieres! The wines are crystalline and have wonderful intensity, but they emphasize elegance and terroir-expression.

Benoit's wines are considerably more affordable than his brother's. Still, they have definitely gone up in price in recent vintages as his fame, justifiably, has skyrocketed. Fortunately, in addition to his trophy wines, he makes many beautiful cuvées from more humble terroirs at prices that are more accessible.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Chardonnay

  • Vintage

    2020

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Organic

  • Style

    Earthy , Minerally

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Medium Bodied

Flatiron's Take

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Roast chicken with truffle, lobster, scallops, Comte cheese, Dover sole meuniere.

Tasting Profile

Crystalline citrus, white peach, acacia and flint. Powerful but graceful, with a long, mineral-driven finish.

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