1989 Meursault Les Perrieres
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Full golden yellow color. More exotic and lower-pitched than the 1990, offering a dominant flavor of canned yellow peach suggesting a very sunny, ripe year. Plush and highly concentrated, with just enough ripe acidity and minerality to give the wine inner-mouth tension. And yet this shows less nuance than the '90 as its sheer ripeness masks its complexity. Finishes a bit less refined as well--less peppy. (just 24 hectoliters per hectare produced, owing to frost, hail and hydric stress)
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Robert Parker
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The 1989 Meursault-Perrieres exhibits exceptional flavor extraction, as well as the tell-tale mineral, cold steel, gunflint-sort of nose that a textbook Perrieres possesses, sensational fruit extraction, and a whoppingly long, crisp finish. Despite its enormous size, the wine is remarkably well-balanced, even backward. Do not expect it to be fully mature for at least 5-6 years. It should evolve over the next two decades. Meursault yields for the Comte Lafon in 1989 were a minuscule 25 hectoliters per hectare. In high yield years, the wines of the Comte Lafon are usually among the most concentrated in Burgundy. From this readers can extrapolate the kind of intensity levels one is dealing with in a vintage such as 1989. Dominique Lafon, who is now in complete charge in the cellars, has continued to move toward a more organic style of winemaking. He has eliminated all fertilizers except for manure, uses minimum amounts of sulphur, and bottles his Meursault unfiltered. If you have the requisite discretionary income, this Meursault is a must purchase. Importer: Classic Wines, Brookline, MA.