2017 Meursault Charmes du Dessus
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The 2017 Meursault Les Charmes-Dessus 1er Cru is slightly paler in color than its peers. The nose is fresh, featuring lime, orange zest and crushed limestone aromas, but delicate, never powerful. Hints of black currant leaf emerge with time. The taut, fresh palate is well balanced with fine delineation and lightly spiced. The compact, stem-ginger-tinged finish that becomes creamier with aeration. Very fine. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting in Savigny-lès-Beaune.
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Neal Martin
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Bright, light yellow. Rich aromas of ripe peach and nutty vanillin oak complicated by a floral element. Concentrated, spicy wine with a captivating impression of sweetness leavened by underlying minerality. In fact, this clearly delineated, classic Charmes is a real high-wire act of ripeness, acidity and dusty mineral extract. Finishes firm and long. The yield here was between 45 and 50 hectoliters per hectare, according to Jean-Baptiste Bouzereau. (I will wait to report on the finished Meursault Genevrières next year, as one of its components had not yet finished its malolactic fermentation in early June and the wine was in an oxidative phase.)