Domaine Veillane · Puligny-Montrachet, Burgundy
Les Terres Blanches
2018
White peach, hazelnut and crushed oyster shell, with a saline tension that lengthens the finish for a full minute. Oak is present only as a shadow.
€685
◆ Gold — Concours des Grands Vins Blancs
The Story
A bottle with a past
Three generations of the Veillane family have worked a single hectare of white marl at the top of the Puligny slope. The parcel is ploughed by horse; the fruit is carried down in wicker, as it was in 1952.
“This wine is the sound of limestone. We only translate.”
The winemaker, Domaine Veillane
Aroma Profile
What rises from the glass
White peach8/10
Hazelnut7/10
Oyster shell7/10
Lemon blossom6/10
Beeswax4/10
At the Table
- — Butter-poached lobster
- — Turbot with beurre blanc
- — Vieux Comté
Vintage & Cellar
A sunlit yet balanced year; early picking preserved nerve and salinity in the whites.
12°C constant; drink within twenty years of the vintage.
- Grape
- Chardonnay
- Region
- Puligny-Montrachet, Burgundy
- Country
- France
- Alcohol
- 13%
- Production
- 4,100 bottles
- Drinking window
- 2024 – 2038
- Serving
- 11–12°C
- Collector grade
- Grand Cru
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