2009 Meursault Les Perrieres

The 2009 Meursault Perrieres is, as one might reasonably expect, quite a bit fresher than the Charmes. It shows lovely precision and depth in a fairly generous style for this vineyard. All of the elements come together beautifully in this round, textured Perrieres. The 2009 should drink well pretty much right out of the gate. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2019. Francois Bitouzet showed me a wide range of wines during my visit to the estate in June, 2011. Unfortunately most of the 2010s were still going through malo and were hard to read, but I did have chance to go through the 2008s, which I have included here. The whites are aged for 12 months in oak, 20-25% new. The village wines are then racked into steel for a further 4-6 months, while the premier crus are racked back into barrel. The extended aging in oak for some of the wines and use of batonnage are among the factors that give these whites a fair amount of textural richness and depth, even in cooler, more reticent vintages such as 2008. New oak is between 20-25%. The 2009s were bottled in February 2011. Importer: Rosenthal Wine Merchant, Pine Plains, NY; tel. (800) 910-1990