Until we find a replacement for our dearly departed Collin Flatt as the resident Phoodie.info wine critic, we’re going to have to settle for… Jay McInerney. The novelist McInerney, if you haven’t been paying attention, has quietly embarked on a second writing career as a wine critic for the Wall Street Journal. In this week’s WSJ piece, he contemplates, the pricey, rare white Burgundies of Puligny-Montrachet, to which he connects Philadelphia’s own late, great Grace Kelly — an exquisite drink of something-or-other if e’er one roamed this Earth. The Puligny-Montrachet apellation, of course, has a lot going for it — a “very mineral, with a more restrained oak character,” according to Wikipedia. If you’re looking to sample a bottle, the PA State Store system currently features a whopping selection of… one. What would Grace say? Sigh.
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If you go to the PLCB Product Search page and search on keyword Puligny they list 3 pages of wines from the region. Most of them are only available by special order, but it’s unfair to expect the PLCB to stock a large number of a “pricey and rare” wine. If you search the wines McInerny mentions in the article on winesearcher.com, you will find that they are difficult to track down across the whole country. A good alternative to the expensive Puligny-Montrachet is the Joseph Drouhin Saint Veran White Bugundy (PLCB Code 30926) still available at 11.99 at the Franklin Mills store.
p.s. Jay McInerney has been writing about wine since the late 90s when he wrote columns for Home & Garden magazine.
If you are still seriously interested in Puligny-Montrachet, here’s one at about 50% off through a PLCB online sale: http://bit.ly/bL1408