2006-MEURSAULT-1er-Cru-Charmes-Domaine-Rémi-Jobard

MEURSAULT

2006 1er Cru Charmes 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%
Vineyard Charmes

Closed when tasted in November, a mildly almondy tension, taut and bright, wiry and long. This probably needs even more time than the Poruzots. As Rémi puts it, this is "more elegant than some other vintages, not as powerful as usual, a bit more in finesse". Intense, long. L&S (Jan 2008)


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Classic Charmes aromas of lemon, smoke, vanilla and hazelnut. Concentrated and silky, with lovely finesse to the flavors of dried fruits, lemon, nuts and stone. Fat, full, densely packed wine, with a firm acid edge giving it lovely balance. Finishes firm and long. This one featured the lowest crop level among Jobard's '06s, at just 35 hectoliters per hectare. Rating: 92 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Sept 2008)

(from a small .17 ha parcel located in Charmes du Haut that abuts Perrières). Somewhat surprisingly, this is even more elegant if not more complex or layered with a citrusy and ripe orchard fruit nose that is in perfect keeping with the naturally sweet, palate staining and full-bodied flavors that possess solid mid-palate concentration and a mouth coating, intense and subtly mineral-infused finish. A beautiful wine that doesn?t quite have the overall class of the Genevrières but every bit as much depth and length. 2012+ Rating: 92 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jun 2008)

Good pale color. Deeply pitched aromas of citrus fruit, hazelnut and vanillin oak; a bit less pristine than the Genevrieres. The fattest and most glyceral of these young 2006s, with thick, tactile flavors of musky citrus fruits and licorice. This boasts excellent volume but is less expressive today in the middle palate than the Genevrieres. More classically dry on the back. Rating: 90-92 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Jan 2008)

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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