2015 Domaine Roulot Meursault Les Perrières 1er Cru
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The 2015 Meursault Les Perrières 1er Cru is the one wine in this peer-group flight that feels excessively reduced on the nose and neutralizes any terroir expression. The palate is well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, taut and focused, and the finish is fresh and lively. It just seems compromised by the level of reduction on the nose; otherwise, this might have been a very fine wine. Like the Clos des Boucheres, I feel this has closed down, hence the score. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.
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William Kelley, Wine Advocate
Jancis Robinson MW
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The 2015 Meursault 1er Cru Perrières is firmly shut down, offering up only a reticent bouquet of iodine, toasted nuts and citrus oil. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, tangy and bright but decidedly taut, playing its cards very close to its vest. From barrel, this was the most intense and concentrated wine in Roulot's cellar, with immense potential, but given how closed the wine is today, there is really no point pulling corks for a good five years.
Bright light yellow. Classic Perrières aromas of underripe pineapple, yellow grapefruit, spices and crushed rock, plus a hint of mineral reduction. Dense and plush but weightless, offering a rare combination of silkiness of texture, minerality and energy. A note of grapefruit peel combines with stony minerality to give this wine superb clarity and inner-mouth lift. Croix does not see this wine shutting down in bottle but it's sharply delineated and a bit tight today. The very long, rising finish leaves the mouth perfumed. I would never have guessed the vintage here thanks to the wine's limestone-driven mineral freshness.
About the producer
Domaine Roulot is one of the most respected wine estates of Meursault, famed for producing some of the world’s finest Chardonnay.