a few wines from the château de meursault

5.9.2016billn

DSC00846A chance weekend tasting 😉
Whilst the local pricing is rather high, these wines really do have more than a pretension to be high-value wines these days…

2013 Beaune 1er Les Grèves
Optical sorting with 3 different cameras, foudres too since 2013
A really super depth of aroma – clearly edged with oak notes, but this nose is really inviting. Good volume in the mouth, fresh fruit, lots of complexity too. This is very tasty, the oak component is not too overt and seems quite attractive here.

2013 Pommard 1er Clos des Epenots
A more obvious floral aroma, pretty, though cushioned red fruit. Layered, complex, very faintly salted – I find this very much more elegant and gorgeously tasting than the Beaune. A long line of flavour, faintly herbed, but fabulous!

2013 Volnay 1er Clos des Chênes
‘The only plot in Volnay where you will find white marl – something much more common in the Côte de Nuits’ – says our host…
A deep nose of dark red fruit, faintly herbed. Lovely mouth-feel – there is a tannin that you can chew, almost, but velvet and no dryness. A wine of more volume than the Epenots, but super, super in the mouth.

2013 Corton
A faintly smoky-fruited nose, but there are no stems. Pure silk – hmmmm… This has fine freshness and a cushioned delivery of flavour. Really not the most powerful of Cortons and rounder rather than direct and sinewy – but really something to appreciate in the glass. More mineral and faintly saline in the finish. Super stuff to drink, already!

Whites

2014 Bourgogne Clos du Château
From the vines planted in the front ‘garden’ of the Château.
A discreet nose, rounded. Fresh, direct, round – a growing complexity with a slowly growing mouth-watering aspect. A sneakily good wine.

2014 Meursault 1er Charmes
A wide fresh, not super-powerful nose, but I find the width super. Hmm, layered, growing in volume. Just a great wine. Some tightness but really a rather haunting length – just a brilliant wine in the making.

2012 Meursault 1er Perrières
A bigger, rounder nose, accented with a faint barrel vanilla. Big, clearly mineral, layered and complex – honestly I’d like just a hint more acidity, but that won’t matter at all in a couple more years.

2013 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Champs Canet
A lovely bright bouquet of fresh yellow citrus. Silky, mineral, very silky – this is lovely. What a super and elegant wine. Excellent!

Agree? Disagree? Anything you'd like to add?

There are 2 responses to “a few wines from the château de meursault”

  1. jonwyand5th September 2016 at 3:25 pmPermalinkReply

    foudres, optical sorting, what is happening to Burgundy !

    • billn5th September 2016 at 3:43 pmPermalinkReply

      Yep, it’s a nightmare for the lovers of mustiness and mushrooms 🙂

  2. Carl Steefel26th September 2016 at 6:47 pmPermalinkReply

    Ha, looks like we just had the same tasting of reds. I quite liked the 2013 Beaune Greves, very good volume on the red fruit, lovely Pinot nose–even guessed Beane Greves, but it was only single blind. I also found the Pommard Epenots even more elegant, surprisingly feminine wine (which is my excuse for not guessing this one, figured Pommard should be more powerful and tannic). Beautiful delicate length. Screwed up the guess on the 2013 Volnay Clos des Chenes, surprisingly tannic and big-boned compared to (again) what I thought should be a softer Volnay. But then got the Corton right, Grand Cru signature there was clear enough, ethereal nose, Oriental spices showing through the delicate red fruit…

    On the whites, we had a vertical of the Meursault Charmes starting with the 2013 (guessed the 2012 as the same vineyard)–pretty powerful, big-boned Meursault compared to what I am used to…

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