Domaine Sauzet Puligny Montrachet Champ Canet 2018 Bottle (75cl)
The 2018 Domaine Sauzet Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Champ Canet is a 100% Chardonnay white Burgundy wine produced in the Puligny-Montrachet appellation. Classified as a Premier Cru, it comes from the Champ Canet parcel. The Wine Advocate awarded it 92/100 and suggests a drinking window of 2022 to 2048. The publication describes an ample and textured white wine, driven by a vibrant, saline backbone with wonderful depth.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- White
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Puligny Montrachet
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine Sauzet
- Parcelle / Cru
- Champ Canet
- Millésime
- 2018
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Chardonnay
Domaine Sauzet
Domaine Étienne Sauzet is a family-run estate based in Puligny-Montrachet, in the Côte de Beaune. Its 15-hectare vineyard is spread across Puligny-Montrachet, Chassagne-Montrachet and Cormot-le-Grand, in the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune. Émilie Boudot, the founder’s great-granddaughter, and her husband Benoît Riffault now run the estate.
- Owner
- Famille Boudot-Riffault
- Maître de chais
- Benoît Riffault
- Surface (ha)
- 15.00 ha
Histoire du domaine
Étienne Sauzet founded the estate in Puligny-Montrachet in the first half of the 20th century, starting with vines he had inherited and subsequently expanding through further acquisitions. He gradually developed the estate, which, according to industry sources, reached just over 12 hectares by the middle of the century. On his death in 1975, his granddaughter Jeanine and her husband Gérard Boudot took over the management of the estate. A division of the estate’s assets in 1991 then significantly reduced the vineyard’s original area. Since then, the estate has supplemented its own vines by purchasing grapes for certain cuvées. Émilie Boudot joined the business from the 2000 vintage onwards, followed by Benoît Riffault in 2002. Benoît Riffault gradually took charge of winemaking and succeeded Gérard Boudot in this role. The vineyard is now managed using biodynamic methods, under the responsibility of Émilie Boudot and Benoît Riffault.
Champ Canet
Champ Canet is an officially recognized climat with the Premier Cru designation of the AOC Puligny-Montrachet, at the northern end of the appellation, near the border with Meursault. It is located below Les Chalumaux and notably borders the Les Combettes sector. Descriptions dedicated to the climat point out a very stony limestone terrain, mixing ochre or clay-limestone soil with numerous pebbles, as well as strong sunshine. The specifications also link the cadastral lieu-dit "La Jaquelotte ou Champ Canet" to the Champ Canet denomination.
- Vineyard commune
- Puligny-Montrachet
- Origin of the vineyard name
- The name is said to come from Canet, a former owner of this part of the vineyard under the Ancien Régime.
- Soil
- Very stony limestone soil, with ochre to clay-limestone earth and numerous pebbles.
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Estate holding in the vineyard (ha)
- 1.200000 ha
- Indicative vine age
- For the 2022 vintage: vines aged 28 to 93 years, with an average of about 65 years.
Histoire de la parcelle
The AOC Puligny-Montrachet was recognized on July 31, 1937. The specific parcel area entitling to the Premier Cru mention was approved by the INAO on May 17 and 18, 1984; the specifications explicitly include Champ Canet. The regulatory appellation also distinguishes, within the lieu-dit "Clos de la Garenne ou Champ Canet", the Premier Cru denomination Clos de la Garenne.
