Puligny Montrachet 1er cru La Truffière 2024 Domaine Thomas Morey

The Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru La Truffière 2024 from Domaine Thomas Morey is a great white from the Côte de Beaune, airy, finely chiselled, marked by remarkable purity. Grown on an upper slope Premier Cru, it offers the full mineral elegance of Puligny, refined by Thomas Morey's precision. This bottle qualifies for the Compagnon rank of the Confrérie des Clos Vivants.

Terroir and vines
La Truffière lies high on the slope of Puligny Montrachet, near the hamlet of Blagny, between the Premiers Crus Champ Gain and Les Chalumeaux. Its name recalls the truffles once gathered from these wooded lands. The Chardonnay vines grow at altitude on shallow, very stony limestone soils. This cool terroir produces taut, airy wines of great finesse. The harvest is done by hand. In 2024, a fresh and demanding vintage yielded small crops and whites of great precision, bright with freshness.

Tasting profile
The colour is pale gold with green highlights. The nose opens on lemon, green apple and white peach, with notes of white flowers, hawthorn, fresh hazelnut and gunflint. The palate is straight and crystalline, finely textured and carried by a luminous acidity. The finish is long, saline and highly mineral. It will gain complexity over eight to twelve years.

The estate
Thomas Morey comes from a major family of winegrowers in Chassagne Montrachet. The son of Bernard Morey, he founded his own estate in 2007 from part of the family vineyards. He works his vines with great rigour and makes precise, pure and taut whites with discreet ageing. He is today regarded as one of the most talented growers in the Côte de Beaune.

Food and wine pairings
Serve between 11 and 13 °C, decanting briefly if young. It will complement line caught sea bass with beurre blanc, roasted langoustines, scallops with truffle, turbot with hollandaise, or poularde in cream. Among cheeses, it pairs beautifully with a 24 month Comté or a Beaufort.