2016 Meursault
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(about 35 hectoliters per hectare produced): Pale, bright yellow. Enticing fruit-driven aromas of peach, fresh apricot, hazelnut and flowers. Lovely silky, supple wine with nicely integrated citrussy acidity framing its citrus fruit, yellow stone fruit and spice flavors. A plump but rather elegant wine with good Meursault typicity. Véronique Drouhin told me that the family does a long, slow toasting of their barrels to minimize new oak flavors.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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The 2016 Meursault Village had been bottled three weeks before my visit in Beaune. It has quite a showy, brioche and peach skin-scented bouquet with a smudge of yellow plum in the background. The palate is well balanced with plenty of peach and nectarine on the entry, perhaps a more commercial Meursault, but there is nothing wrong with that if it is well made. And I feel that this is well made.
Bought-in grapes or unfermented must. Tiny proportion of premier cru fruit in this. Pale straw. Sweet and straightforward creamy fruit with a fine streak of green acidity running through it. A little raw on the end. (JR)
About the producer
Joseph Drouhin is one of the largest and most famous producers in Burgundy, making both domaine and négociant wines. It remains family-owned and run, now in the hands of the fourth generation.