With a nose of toasty, buttery fruit, the Puligny Montrachet Les Pucelles exhibits gorgeously concentrated, roasted and baked sweet fruits. This oily-textured, medium-to-full-bodied wine provides immediate pleasure, and it can be held for 5+ years. This note is the result of tastings I did in Burgundy between January 7 and January 29. Importer: Robert Kacher Selections, Washington, DC; tel (202) 832-9083.

Fantastic. This unique '95 is vibrant yet dense, full-bodied and elegant, fresh like dawn yet amazingly complex. It delivers a symphony of pure, clean, well-defined lemon, toasted oak and spice notes along with all sorts of fresh fruit flavors that persist on the long finish. Should only gain complexity after 2000. 167 cases made. -