"90-92 Points - Neal Martin, Vinous.com
The 2022 Puligny-Montrachet Corvées des Vignes comes from vines planted in 1955. There are touches of yellow fruit and beeswax on the nose and fine delineation, though it does not have the precision of the Champs Gains. The palate is well-balanced, taut, and fresh, with a fine bead of acidity, elegant in style, with hints of nectarine and lemon rind on the finish. Crack this open after two or three years. Drinking Window 2026 - 2038 - Reviewed November 2023
90 Points - Allen Meadows, Burghound.com
Outstanding - 'Sweetspot'
Wood and reduction overshadow the underlying fruit. On the palate, the plump, succulent and concentrated medium weight flavors flash unusually good power as well as excellent length. This isn't elegant, indeed it's borderline rustic, yet is offers impressive quality for its level. Drink: 2027+
The reserved and thoughtful Vincent Dureuil, who runs this 21 ha domaine, was characteristically forthright about the 2020 growing season calling it "easy as we didn't really have much disease pressure and no frost. The yields were, for once, reasonable as they came in around 50 hl/ha for the chardonnay though the pinot got hit somewhat at only 25 hl/ha because the berries were tiny and there wasn't much juice in them. We picked from the 25th of August to the 4th of September and the fruit basically could not have been cleaner. The potential alcohols were lower than in 2019 as those averaged 14% while in 2020, everything came in between 13 and 14%. For the whites I did a bit of lees stirring but it wasn't systematic. As to the wines, I think 2020 is a good to very good vintage for the whites but it's a genuinely great vintage for the reds." Dureuil is nothing if not consistent and I found the quality to be excellent. Moreover, I found it to be excellent in both colors. Dureuil noted that his 2020 whites were bottled in March and April 2022 and the reds in April. I would also note that Dureuil expressly tries to bottle his whites with a touch of reduction as he intends for them to age well. To that end, if you prefer to drink your whites on the younger side, I suggest decanting them for 15 or so minutes."
Vincent Dureuil is an amazing vigneron, he produces exquisite red and white wines which are among the most highly regarded (and enjoyed!) by his peers in all Burgundy. His family have been vignerons in the village of Rully since the seventeenth century. Having taken over his father’s vines a few years ago, he now owns some 20 hectares (16 of which are in Rully) which are farmed organically. Everything is hand-picked. A large proportion of his vines are in excess of 50 to 75 years old. His reds are rigorously sorted, destemmed and are cold macerated at 10 degrees for 10 days prior to fermentation. They are vinified, with natural yeasts, in temperature controlled open fermenters and see around 30% new oak for 18 months, prior to being bottled unfined and unfiltered. His whites are pressed long and hard to extract plenty of solids prior to vinification in barriques (20% new) for 16-18 months. All movements of the wine follow the lunar calendar.
Vincent’s cellars are very deep and cold, and all fermentations, malolactic processes and stabilizations take much longer than ordinarily. Vincent uses the minimum amount of SO2 possible, both during vinification and at bottling. This, together with low yielding, old vines, contributes to the great richness and complexity which all his wines demonstrate.
His Puligny-Montrachet “Corvée des Vignes” is from 0.4 hectares planted in 1955 below 1er Cru les Referts.
