Tasted in Meursault with Thomas & Vincent Latour, 19 April 2024.
Domaine Vincent Latour
6 Rue du 8 Mai 1945
21190 Meursault
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Vincent on 2022:
“I find a nice freshness despite the sun of the vintage – they are not flat. In fact, I’m happily surprised by the result – if you go early the wines can lack some perfume but given the result, I think we made the right choices.”
The wines…
I always find some great wines at this address – and 2022 is no exception. There are many, delicious wines to choose from this year…
Vincent has been building up to using DIAM Origine for a number of years – having started on this road in 2006 – now all the wines are sealed like this. Diam 5 for the Bourgognes, it’s 10s for the villages and 30 origine for the GCs,..”
2022 Mâcon-Chardonnay
Nicely fresh, a hint of yeastiness – inviting. Large scale – a little juicy intensity and even a little tannic texture – here, long finishing. Very good!
2022 Chablis Kimmerigian
A parcel in Prehy
A more direct, fresh and intense nose – a little yellow citrus fruit too. Juicy, growing in energy – zesty finishing bitters – delicious !
2022 Bourgogne Côte d’Or Chardonnay
Mainly from the Volnay side of Meursault.
Hmm – a warm ginger freshness – that’s really inviting. Hmm, more depth to this this texture with a large, wide wave of saline-inflected flavour – holding impressively well. Personally, I like the Chablis more but this is a better wine…
2022 Bourgogne Côte d’Or Chardonnay ‘Cuvée Heritage‘
Vines planted in around 1951 by the grandfather on the border with Meursault.
More airy, a little more direct then slowly more floral too. Larger scale in the mouth – there’s extra freshness here – growing in intensity. The finishing flavour holds stronger and longer – this is my new favourite!
2022 St.Aubin Cuvée Thomas
A mix of domaine and purchases made at the time of the harvest.
A more vertical nose – high tones and fine depth too. Larger scale in the mouth – nicely structured. I love the finishing intensity though the oak is a little more overt here. Tastes great and is very moreish…
2022 St.Aubin 1er Les Frionnes
Quite airy – wider and more floral aromatics. Larger scale and more depth of energetic flavour – a lovely ripe agrume fruit here. Wide and more generous finishing – holding great in this finish…
Less depth of aroma but a fine fresh width. More structured and fluid in the mouth – melting, great citrus, intense and zesty too in this finish. Love it – bravo villages!
2022 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Morgeot
Near Abbaye de Morgeot – towards the bottom.
A more concentrated core of fruit aroma, ripe but not exotic. Cool fruit but of really great scale – more mineral and with a small vibration of slowly fading flavour in the finish. More of everything except deliciousness today versus the last wine…
2022 Meursault St.Jean
A mix of vineyards – Crotots, Vireuils and the villages part of Meix sous Château.
A finer citrus complexity – less ripe in this case. Hmm – I love the direct, slightly mineral, precision of this wine – Very slowly fading, less overt but completely delicious.
2022 Meursault Pellans
A more stony aromatic intensity. Large in the mouth – good energy again – that’s got a fine finishing fruit – like mandarin – with a little oaky cream… Delicious wine again.
2022 Meursault Clos de Magny
From behind the cuverie of Roulot
Freshness and width yet density too. A hint of gas here – A small generosity and a hint of textured creaminess in the finish – a small kiss of tannin in the finish too.
2022 Meursault Narvaux
A good width of aroma with a super intensity and clarity of fruit – super. Vibrant – great shape, faintly cushioned richness in the middle flavours – that’s got a super balance. Love it !!
2022 Meursault Grand Charrons
More direct, a little less width but what a lovely invitation. Extra structure – growing wider – sweet citrus intensity, again with a small kiss of finishing tannin – faintly with citrus bitters here. Very tasty wine…
2022 Meursault 1er Charmes
Mix of high and low parcels.
Fine, more perfumed – less overt energy but such fine clarity. Larger in the mouth, cool fruit – the intensity more a width – citrus complexity, again tending towards more orange fruit. This is a great mouthful of wine that I’d wait for to make the (modest) richness a hint more strict – but simply excellent wine.
Airy width of fresh energy – I really like the shape of this. There’s an extra level of clarity and fluidity – a more mineral style and I love the precision and structure of this – bravo!
2022 Meursault 1er Perrieres
50% new wood for this wine.
A seamless width of ripe yellow citrus. The largest scale in the mouth – almost a golden citrus, sizzling with energy. Small height but wide waves of finishing flavour – actually less overtly mineral than the Poruzots. For keeping 10 years before it matches – or even beats the minerality of the Poruzots…
2022 Corton-Charlemagne
From Ladoix, 4th vintage here…
Sweeping but more direct too – yes! Great scale in the mouth – wide and intense – that’s got great citrus intensity. Super finishing complexity… Simply excellent Charlemagne…
Les rouges:
All destemmed, no fining or filtration –
Really aromatic and very open today – lovely. I like the shape and structure of this – a little tannin frames all these cool but nicely intense flavours. Really wide in the finish – a great Bourgogne…
2022 Meursault Vieilles-Vignes
From Malpoiriers and Dressoles again.
Extra freshness and spice to this lovely focused nose. Mouth-filling, extra structure – plenty of tannin – this is a large wine and long finishing too – tons of energy – chunky wine…
2022 Volnay Cuvée Nathan
Two parcels today.
Bright, fresh, nicely complex spices here, cloves too. Mouth-filling, juicy wine – good scale and persistence. Lovely wine, delicious wine.
2022 Volnay Serpents Cuvée Elegance
From near Mitans with some gravels here – Les Serpents
The word elegant got me – and I can’t dissociate from these red fruit aromas! Velour, generous, concentrated and slightly graphite length. Super wine.
2022 Pommard Vieilles-Vignes
From Les Riottes and near the ‘station’ in Pommard. Destem all, vibrating table plus triage table followed by ‘a little’ cold soak, delestage not pigeage for 4-5 days – really separating the juice from the solids for 5-6 hours – a more standard approach after.
More open, wider and fresher. Proper architecture here – fine acid fruit that brings an extra juiciness to the finish. Slowly fading. Today, I’d take this before the Volnay Elegance – in 5 more years, I’m less sure!!
2022 Gevrey-Chambertin
A panorama of faintly spiced dark fruit – great freshness too. Cool, precise – chiselled wine. I like it a lot…
The vines are almost but not quite in Santenots – just 20-30 metres away. Vincent recounts that this was hardly sellable as a white in the 50s, so his grandfather changed the colour! ‘The vines suffer here, planted on the rock, hardly half a harvest usually.’
Tighter higher tones but sweet, dark width of aroma in the bass-line. Large scale in the mouth – so concentrated in the middle and the finishing flavour – what an impressive wine – and despite only modest energy it’s really great.
2022 Corton Rognets
A smaller but still engaging nose – a fine impression – the second sniff is more perfumed – that’s lovely. Cushioned, the texture of velour – such large scale – so impressive! I’d be waiting for this but there’s a super, almost granular, complexity to this wine – simply excellent…