1995 Meursault Les Perrieres
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Full, bright yellow with a gold tinge. Fruit-driven scents of orange zest and ripe pineapple suggest an edge of botrytis without quite going honeyed. Mouthfilling without being weighty, this wonderfully rich, ripe and delicious wine boasts a refined texture that reminded me of Lafon's most recent vintages. The very long, slowly building finish is classic, tactile and gripping, showing a serious stony quality and lovely lingering perfume. This would be a perfect match with scallops. Lafon told me he loves this vintage (he also sold too many bottles and has very little left), and at the time he considered it his best since the '89. As in 2010, he picked the grapes earlier than he had anticipated owing to rainfall shortly before the harvest. "This was the year I learned that you have to rush to pick after a storm," he told me. I could drink this wine all day. (just 23 hectoliters per hectare produced owing to a poor flowering)
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Pierre Rovani
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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The Meursault Les Perrieres has deep mineral and earth tones in the nose, and toasty, nutty, iron flavors in the mouth. Powerful and full-bodied, it possesses great length and balance. Drink it between 2000-2010. This note is the result of tastings I did in Burgundy between January 7 and January 29. Ratings with a range of scores in parentheses indicate the wine was tasted from cask, not bottle. Dominique Lafon, who has run this estate on his own since 1987, feels his '95s are the best set of wines he's made to date. I would ignore this kind of statement from most growers in Burgundy as they are often given to hyperbole, but Lafon walks the walk in addition to talking the talk. His reputation is such that his wines sell-out instantaneously irrespective of what critics might write. Secondly, he's not the type of man who would risk his credibility, nor is he given to immodest boasting. His '95s are outstanding wines that may have better structure than those from previous vintages, and, therefore, may age and evolve more gracefully. He has produced fatter, lusher wines in the past (the '89s for example), but, in general, cellaring hasn't improved them. I believe the '95 will be different. Importer: Classic Wine Imports, Boston, MA; tel (617) 731-6644.
The Meursault Les Perrieres has deep mineral and earth tones in the nose, and toasty, nutty, iron flavors in the mouth. Powerful and full-bodied, it possesses great length and balance. Drink it between 2000-2010. This note is the result of tastings I did in Burgundy between January 7 and January 29. Ratings with a range of scores in parentheses indicate the wine was tasted from cask, not bottle. Dominique Lafon, who has run this estate on his own since 1987, feels his '95s are the best set of wines he's made to date. I would ignore this kind of statement from most growers in Burgundy as they are often given to hyperbole, but Lafon walks the walk in addition to talking the talk. His reputation is such that his wines sell-out instantaneously irrespective of what critics might write. Secondly, he's not the type of man who would risk his credibility, nor is he given to immodest boasting. His '95s are outstanding wines that may have better structure than those from previous vintages, and, therefore, may age and evolve more gracefully. He has produced fatter, lusher wines in the past (the '89s for example), but, in general, cellaring hasn't improved them. I believe the '95 will be different. Importer: Classic Wine Imports, Boston, MA; tel (617) 731-6644.
The Meursault Les Perrieres has deep mineral and earth tones in the nose, and toasty, nutty, iron flavors in the mouth. Powerful and full-bodied, it possesses great length and balance. Drink it between 2000-2010. This note is the result of tastings I did in Burgundy between January 7 and January 29. Ratings with a range of scores in parentheses indicate the wine was tasted from cask, not bottle. Apr 1997, www.robertparker.com