Here’s an interesting pour, nervy Puligny Montrachet character, lemon. The electric acidity I encountered years ago while working at the Wine Discount Center in Chicago, (The coolest place to pick up a bottle in those days) the shop in which I got my first taste of Sauzet’s Puligny. A grand moment! Think I was with my good friend Jim, and Elena, who is now making wine out in Cali. Where are you Elena? Certainly, this bottle speaks of a smaller scale, but indeed it is redolent. And, what is so cool here, is that the wine requires some warming, and opening. As it takes on oxygen, and finds its optimum temperature, it blossoms, like the most perfect flower. Aromatically, I find subtle intensity, welcome austerity, and intoxicating bring me back to the glass splendor…just keep bringing it back to the nose. Lemon developing into pink grapefruit. You don’t really yet want to taste it. In the mouth, the wine is at once brusque-acids! But, these acids are what many consider Verve! Verve is good. Why would they name a famous Jazz label by the same? This Verve, as the wine marries with a little 02, develops and proffers up tell tale Macon Chardonnay in the way of crisp green apples drizzled with honey. Some marzipan chimes in. An ever so mild fruit ripeness overtakes the verve, and then retreats. The wine fleshes out. It is insidious, and just keeps drawing you in. This pour is one that white Burgundy geeks live for. And, you can find it for around twenty bucks. A small scale version of Puligny for those of us who are cash poor, but still appreciate the finer attributes of white Burgundy. This is “the kind.” Find this bottle. Enjoy some now, and let a few rest a bit in your cellar. Drink it to jazz with plenty of Verve such as this offering: Monk…”Well you needn’t

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