2016 Meursault
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(bottled a month before my visit): Bright medium yellow. Aromas of ripe orchard fruits and orange zest. Concentrated, tactile wine with serious inner-mouth mineral tension to its flavors of soft citrus fruits, gingery spices and talc. Not a particularly easygoing village wine owing to its strong minerality but balanced, rich and long.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson MW
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There are just five barrels instead of fifty of the 2016 Meursault Village this year. It has a simple, dried honey and walnut-scented bouquet that is just missing some tension that the 2014 and 2015 were bestowed. The palate is pretty—very smooth, with a gentle, caressing texture, tropical hints of passion fruit and guava on the entry and an attractive and easygoing finish.
Five out of the usual 15 barrels made in 2016, thanks to frost. No second crop – just one bunch every five or six vines. Really rich nose. Then crisp and precise. No hint of matchstick. (JR)