Remoissenet Pere et Fils Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Perrières

Bright pale golden in colour and with classic citrus, white flowers, grilled nuts and oak spice, all completely tainted by moderate TCA. Such a shame, as the underlying wine is a tightly coiled and mineral PM. Not a hint of POX.

I know from friends that this wine is variable WRT Premox, unusually so for this normally reliable producer. No such issue with this bottle. Pale in colour and really tight on opening, with lemon and lime pith, hazelnuts and cinnamon oak. With some air, white flowers and white stone fruits but a bit shy if anything. Glorious palate, subtle, restrained, classic PM with more white stone fruit and a long finish of citrus and nutty oak. Wonderful energy and an …

Watching England vs Belgium. A bit better than the last bottle we had - this was a decent, if rather unusually hefty 2007 Puligny 1er Cru. The nose still bore some signs of youth, with a remnant of vanillin oak aromas alongside rich wafts of ripe yellow fruit, honey and just a bit white flowers at the edges. Rather ripe smelling for a 2007, which threw me off when blind tasting. Similar on the palate too. Big, heavyweight, with plenty …

Dinner at Hwa Seafood (Hwa Seafood, Tagore Lane) : A pleasant wine, but this was atypical both for a 2007 and for a Puligny Perrières, perhaps because of a little hint of oxidation that it suffered. It had a very advance, extremely rich nose for such a young wine, and from a shy vintage like 2007 too - sweet oak, ripe yellow fruit in the form of some peach and nectarine aromas, strangely developed smells of earth and mushrooms. Not …