MEURSAULT
2020 1er Cru Charmes Cuvée de la Centaurée Laurent Ponsot
| 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 |
(a Centaurée is a cornflower). A more elegant, pure and beautifully layered nose reflects notes of honeysuckle, crushed fennel, spiced tea and apple. The sleek, intense and slightly more refined middleweight flavors exude a subtle minerality on the focused, dry, clean and youthfully austere finale. Lovely. Drinking range: 2028 - Rating: 92 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jun 2023)
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DELIVERY SERVICE
We offer free nationwide delivery on all orders over £150 (excluding Highlands & Islands). Express Delivery options also available.Blended from five suppliers. A little light lemon. More backward than the Meursault Blagny, but with much greater density. This is a huge mouthful which will take a few years to finish evolving. Very good fruit acid balance. Lean at first on the palate but will certainly show much more flesh later. Excellent persistence. Drink from 2028-2034. Tasted: November 2022. Drinking range: 2022 - 2034 Rating: **** Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy (Nov 2022)
Laurent Ponsot
'Laurent Ponsot is neither a "domaine" nor a "house": it is a state of mind' say the owners. The company started by Laurent Ponsot and his son Clément when he separated from the family domaine has 7 hectares of vines which is is responsible for, but also buys fruit and acts as a very modern style of négociant 'haute couture'.
Laurent's long history and experience as one of the leading lights of Cote de Nuits viticulture over the last forty years is now invested in this new venture, in which he emphasises modernity and technology alongside tradition. The team he has started with are all people he has worked with for over twenty years at Domaine Ponsot. The vines are cultivated without any eco dogma, but without chemicals - nevertheless they reserve the right to treat with modern products in case of real need. All the wines are corked with recyclable technical corks developed by Laurent since the 1980s and produced by his company, which guarantee no cork taint and consistency between all the bottles of each wine. All the wines have NFC chips embedded in the capsules which are a guarantee of authenticity. All the cases have NFC thermo sensors which record the temperature of the interior of the case every three hours over a period of fifteen years. These NFCs can be read by free apps on any modern smartphone.
These are great wines of Burgundy which have the additional guarantees of the huge investments in modern technology.
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