Friend up from CA for the weekend and he still keeps his wine here I Portland so usually an interesting wine or two when he is here.
2007 Paul Pernot Puligny-Montrachet: Still lightly straw colored. Fresh and brightly fruited nose. Some bottle age richness, but generally speaking still a very nice combination of the nature of the vintage and the style of the village. Easy to like. Not thunderously complex but delicious, fresh and clean Chardonnay.
2007 Paul Pernot Bienvenue-Batard Montrachet: much deeper golden color to this than the PM but likely due to obvious higher percentage of new barrel and perhaps even longer barrel aging. Definitely shows barrel tones with opulent fruits and an olive oil over stones sort of character. Viscous and textured without being alcoholic or obvious. Holds its size together nicely. Long with the texture folding into some back end structure. This all being said the person whose this was found it pre-moxxed and moved off of it (more for me!) and decided, yes, to see if another bottle of it the next day would show differently so…we had it again the next day and while it may have shown slightly more brightness in the 2nd bottle I would attribute this more to bottle variation than anything. Thought both were delicious and glad he found the first wanting so we could run it back the next day.
2004 Domaine Dujac Chambolle-Musigny: I definitely found the GMs here. Pretty typical in the sense that there was clearly stylish, relatively youthful and nice material underneath but this, to my senses, was too much representative of the downside of this vintage (and I actually not only don’t mind the 2004s but have had a distinct run of very nice wines as of late).
2005 Domaine Dujac Chambolle-Musigny: Quite the wine. Young and jumpy but not so much so that it was shrouded in either baby fat and/or youthful tannin. Has the extra bump of dark fruit ripeness that the vintage seems to carry but handles it gracefully and while it edges to darker tones still busts out the CM redder notes as its primary focus. Lovely character and spot on texture. Punches above the weight class and was truly very, very tasty. Years in front of it but by no means a crime to enjoy now.
! I’ve actually seen it with GCs quite often - e.g. a recent '06 CBM was much more mature than the 1er from the same stable. Sure, bottle variation plays a part, but I also think there might be links to ripeness and extract in some cases. Funnily enough, I’ve not had a “fully mature” village Puligny yet (out of dozens) but several fully mature GCs and 1ers.