Domaine d’Auvenay’s Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru “Les Folatières” 2009 is a rare, high-demand white Burgundy from Lalou Bize-Leroy’s tiny Saint-Romain-based estate, farmed biodynamically with an uncompromising low-yield approach. The wine comes from the Les Folatières premier cru climat, a mid-slope site widely regarded as one of Puligny’s best, and it is made entirely from Chardonnay. Production is exceptionally small: Vinous reports “nine hundred bottles produced.”

The 2009 vintage in Burgundy is generally associated with ripe, generous fruit and softer profiles, and this bottling fits that framework while still leaning into Puligny’s mineral detail. In an excellent review, Vinous critic Neal Martin awarded 94 points and describes a wine that already shows evolved color—“burnished gold in color”—while remaining focused aromatically and structurally. On the nose, Martin notes “scents of dried honey and dandelion,” with “struck flint scents [that] blossom with aeration,” pointing to a combination of mature richness and classic reductive, stony cues.

On the palate, the same review emphasizes precision over sheer weight: “The palate is clean and precise,” Martin writes, calling the wine “disarming in terms of intensity.” He does flag a brief moment of reserve—“initially it seems a little static on the finish”—but the note is ultimately about how well the wine opens with time. After air, he reports that “after 20 minutes in the glass, it manifests more energy and you end up completely enamored.”

Taken together, the available professional tasting suggests a serious, concentrated 2009 Puligny that rewards patience in the glass, combining honeyed maturity with flinty detail and a notably precise finish for such a ripe year.