The 2017 Puligny-Montrachet Les Combettes 1er Cru is a little too reduced for my liking, although it seems to recover with aeration and there is plenty of fruit concentration. The palate is slightly tropical on the entry, but very pure, with a fine bead of acidity. Fresh and quite saline, it needs two or three years to assimilate the oak, though it should be worth the wait because there is a lot of extract and intensity. Pushing Grand Cru in quality. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting in Savigny-lès-Beaune. -- Neal Martin

(WA 92-94 points) The 2017 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Combettes is very promising, unwinding in the glass with notes of lemon, tangerine oil, dried white flowers, honeycomb and spices. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with broader shoulders than the Clavoillon, with tangy balancing acids, thrilling incipient complexity and a long, saline finish. - William Kelley

Old vines from 1963 and 1972 provide the grapes for this Combettes. Fine bright colour, there is a graceful depth to this wine which is immediately attractive. The soft cashmere approach dominates the first half of the nose has the similar slightly evolved the palate, then fresh lime juice infuses the back end. More persistent than Folatières. Tasted: October 2018.