MEURSAULT

2009 1er Cru Poruzot Dessus Domaine Rémi Jobard

Grapes Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Beaune
Village Meursault
Classification 1er Cru
ABV 13.5%
Vineyard Poruzot Dessus

Like the Chevalieres, a touch of smoke. A sense of ripe citrus. Total purity of fruit and mineral on the palate. Builds to a considerable richness, just getting into its perfect drinking window. L&S (Jan 2011)


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The fruit on the nose is sweet and ripe yet there is a lot of freshness behind. Greengage and melon are backed by honey nicely balanced by citrus and apple. The back palate has an attractive mix of flavours. 2012-16 Rating: 92 Derek Smedley MW, www.dereksmedleymw.co.uk (Dec 2013)

The 2009 Meursualt Poruzots Au Dessus is a beautifully pointed, articulated wine graced with endless finesse and sophistication. It shows wonderful nuance and transparency in its bright, crystalline fruit. Initially rather reserved, the wine turns richer and more exuberant on the mid-palate and finish. Clean, saline notes add the final layers of complexity. This is all about subtlety and nuance. I wish I had had more time to follow it, as the wine continued to improve as it opened up in the glass. Anticipated maturity: 2013+. Rating: 94 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Jan 2012)

A more complex though not more elegant nose that is cool yet ripe with good freshness to the green fruit and lemon juice infused aromas that merge seamlessly into rich, voluminous and very lightly mineral-inflected flavors that possess a taut muscularity on the extract rich and mouth coating finish. This is a bit rustic though there is certainly good flavor authority. 2014+ Rating: 90 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jun 2011)

Domaine Rémi Jobard

Rémi has been making small qualitative changes ever since he took over here in 1996. The entire vineyard is cordon-pruned, so yields are naturally limited. There has been no use of fertiliser since 1994, and the vineyard is grassed-over to encourage the vine roots to go deep. The domaine has been certified organic from 2008. He says that the two most important things are the absence of weedkiller (and thus the necessity to plough, which cuts any surface roots and makes the vine go deeper) and not adding any fertiliser which again makes the roots go deeper to find nutrients.

Rémi has two vast presses, to enable him to press very slowly over six hours, and this has resulted in a big jump in finesse. The élevage now lasts nearly fifteen months, so as to allow the wines to develop slowly and to avoid fining. As a result these are wines which take a moment to show, but which reward the patient with complexity and great depth of flavour.

Rémi made a move from traditional barrels to foudres made of a mix of French, Austrian and Slavonian oak, constructed by Austrian cooper Stockinger, and having added a new one (or two) each year, there's barely a normal barrel left. He likes the way the wines develop in these large volumes, in which the 'oaking' effect is minimised.

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