2016 Domaine Guffens-Heyen Macon-Pierreclos Juliette et Les Vieilles de Charigue

I hadn't drunk the brilliant 2016 Mâcon-Pierreclos Juliette et les Vieilles de Chavigne, the inaugural vintage of this ne plus ultra cuvée from Guffens's holdings in Chavigne, for several years, so I was delighted to find that it is beginning to hit its stride. Offering up aromas of pear, ripe citrus fruit, sourdough, dried white flowers and iodine, it's medium to full-bodied, deep and seamless, its textural attack segueing into a layered, intensely concentrated and pungently mineral palate, concluding with a long, saline finish. As well as it begins to drink today, it will certainly be better still in a decade.