92-94 Wine Advocate. Review Date: 01/2025. The 2023 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Combettes was picked a week later, and it's richer and fuller than the Folatières, unwinding in the glass with a gently reductive bouquet of orange zest, flowers and peach. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and layered, it's fleshy and textural, with lively acids and a gently exotic finish. Domaine Dujac's 2023 harvest began with Les Folatières on September 1, followed by a five-day pause before resuming on September 6. As elsewhere, yields were generous, and alcohol levels range between 13.3% and 14%. The domaine's more spacious and better temperature-controlled new winery was surely an asset, and the 2023s are shaping up nicely, offering up expressive fruit as well as plenty of underlying structure. Readers, of course, will be familiar with the outlines of the Dujac approach to producing red Burgundy: organic farming, fermentation with a predominance of whole clusters (with some 20% to 30% destemmed this year) and élevage in barrels largely sourced from Tonnellerie Rémond.(WK)
93 Tim Atkin. Review Date: 01/2025. This is an old vine cuvée (approximately 70) made from two parcels on different ends of the cru, going from top to bottom. The oak influence is up-front with hints of melted butter and toasted almonds. The palate offers bergamot, beeswax and crushed stone, ending with a tinge of saltiness.
91-93 Burghound. Review Date: 06/2025. Note: from a .60 ha parcel. Here the wood treatment surrounding the even more floral-suffused aromas of just sliced apple and poached pear is slightly more prominent. The medium weight flavors aren't as concentrated but they're finer with a subtle minerality adding a sense of lift to the balanced, dry and mildly more persistent finale. As Combettes almost always is, this is a wine of class and finesse.*Burghound Outstanding!*
