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   Phil Eaves
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   Anyone out there know what has happened to this Domaine, I am reseraching Meursault premier cru red wine, of which they used to be one producer but I cannot find anything upto date about them, have they left the planet?

   thanks Phil

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Claude Kolm
   Member

   Virgile Pothier's daughter married into a family in Chassagne (I think it's Fontaine-Gagnard, but I'm not 100% positive) and the wines were incorporated into that estate.

   I used to visit the Pothier-Rieusset regularly until about 1995-96 and I don't recall a red Meursault there, although there was a white one.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Phil Eaves
   Member

   Claude, thanks for the heads up now traced them to F & L Pillot. Hanson quoted them as having the red Caillerets, and the latest I have now suggests this was finally all replanted to white during 1997 the youngest vines of F&L. So we are now down to only two domaines with a red Meursault Caillerets!

   cheers
   Phil

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Claude Kolm
   Member

   Phil -- The white Meursault was a Caillerets. A quick and dirty search of the internet reveals mentions of the P-R white Caillerets from vintages back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but no red Caillerets. Which edition of Hanson are you looking at?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Phil Eaves
   Member

   I've got all three editions but it only appears in the latter two, page 433 in edition 2
   to be precise. But I am happy to take your word Claude it may be that the replanting that took place in 1983 removed all the red? in any case its all gone!

   cheers

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Claude Kolm
   Member

   Phil Eaves said:
   it may be that the replanting that took place in 1983 removed all the red?

   That would make sense. P-R began to be imported into the San Francisco area with the 1979 vintage, but I don't recall the Meursault showing up until the late 1980s.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Claude Kolm
   Member

   Looking at my three volumes and 2-1/8 editions of Hanson and checking my notes from many visits in the last half of the 1980s and 1st half of the 1990s, this is just a (rare) error in Hanson's books. He also missed the fact that Pothier had a (very good) Volnay.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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