The 2019 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Folatières is a fine success, offering up notes of pear, mandarin, fresh bread, peach and nutmeg. Medium to full-bodied, fleshy and enveloping, it's lively but gourmand, with an attractive core of fruit and a long, expansive finish.

The 2017 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Folatières is exceptional, and once again one of the high points of the Bachelet brothers' portfolio. Offering up aromas of crisp yellow orchard fruit, white flowers and honeycomb, the wine is medium to full-bodied, satiny and layered, with excellent depth and dimension at the core, good concentration and chewy extract despite its elegant, integrated profile, concluding with superb length on the finish.

The 2016 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Folatières was apparently much closed the week before I tasted it at the domaine. It offers more complexity and terroir expression on the nose than the Les Referts at this early juncture, with lovely yellow flower and dried honey notes emerging with time as it achieves impressive vigor. The palate is very well balanced with a superb bead of acidity, maybe a little richer than the 2015 last year, with a seductive waxy texture toward the long finish. This is a beautifully crafted Les Folatières from Bachelet-Monnot that comes highly recommended.

The 2015 Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru les Folatieres has a strict, backward, introspective bouquet that perhaps does not convey its terror with the gusto of the Les Referts at this point. That may change of course. The palate is very well balanced with good salinity on the entry, understated at first but building and fanning out towards the spicy, lively finish. Superb salinity here, yet this Les Folatières will needs 2-3 years in bottle. Those who have a penchant for this wine should stock up on the 2015, since after the 2016 vintage, half the vineyard was pulled up.

Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting, Bachelet-Monnot's 2014 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru les Folatières has what you might describe as a "punters' nose" with more conspicuous new oak than I anticipated, though fortunately there seems to be plenty of fruit behind it. The palate is well balanced with hints of fresh lime and citrus fruit, well-judged acidity and with a harmonious finish that lingers in the mouth. Everything seems to be in the right place here—just a natural flow that sends a tingle down your spine.