Chablis Les Preuses Piuze 2016 (750ML)

92+ Points, Neal Martin, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: "The 2016 Chablis Grand Cru les Preuses has a refined bouquet with lemon thyme, mint and oyster shell-very focused and detailed. The palate is fresh and poised, quite energetic on the entry and maintaining that level right up until the saline finish, which has just the right amount of bitterness to urge you back for another sip. This feels tighter than Patrick's other crus at the moment and as such, I would afford it two, possibly three years in bottle." 8/17

91-94 Points, Stephen Tanzer, Vinous Media: "(the yield here was just 35 hectoliters per hectare owing to millerandage): Aromas of yellow fruits, flowers and spices suggest a deep wine. Fat, savory and dry; a very concentrated wine with excellent breadth for the vintage. But the brisk flavors of pear, fresh white plum and Granny Smith apple will need time to fill in. It's hard to believe that this fruit was picked at 11.8% potential alcohol (and chaptalized only to 12.2%), but Piuze noted that he routinely gets mature skins here at low sugar levels." 8/17

94 Points, Bruce Sanderson, Wint Spectator: "Rich, well-structured and intense, this white evokes white peach, melon, lemon, stone and spice aromas and flavors. Complex and long, with a chalky feel on the lingering finish. Best from 2019 through 2025." 11/17

94 Points, William Kelley, Decanter: "The Preuses is the king of the cellar in 2016, offering up a classic nose of white flowers, oyster shell, salty soil tones and hints of citrus pith - as Vincent Dauvissat likes to remark, Preuses is really not about fruit. On the palate the wine is concentrated, texturally refined and complete, with lovely tension and understated depth. Like Les Clos, this will need a few years in the cellar to blossom." 10/17