Meo-Camuzet Freres & Soeurs Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Perrieres Premier Cru 2019
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This is purchased fruit, but the Méo team has been working the vines since 2003. The parcel is in Nuits, south of the village, at the top of the slope in thin soils, delivering a wine with an intense mineral/saline note, but the site ripens fruit well and there is also abundant pomegranate and mulberry fruit, polished tannins and remarkable elegance on the finish.
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Opening in the glass with scents of sweet berry fruit, spices, loamy soil and wild plums, the 2019 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Perrières (Méo-Camuzet Frère & Soeurs) is medium to full-bodied, lively and fine-boned this year, with a layered core of fruit, bright acids and a gently rose-inflected finish. As readers may remember, Méo farms this parcel and harvests the fruit with his own team.
Barrel Sample: 91-93
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Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
Inhabiting the bottom end of the northern half of the Côte d’Or, Nuits-St-Georges is a busy, market-driven town and home to many of Burgundy’s negociants. It is also the largest town in the Côte d’Or after Beaune and contributes "nuits" to the name of Côte de Nuits (i.e., the northern half of the Côte d’Or).
The appellation itself is divided into two parts, where in the north it directly borders Vosne-Romanée, the southerly end is the commune of Prémeaux. There are no Grands Crus in this village, though it does have a large number of Premiers Crus.
The best Nuits-St-Georges Pinot Noir are layered with cherry, plum, underbrush and sandalwood. The fruit is sweet, the wine energetic, and the finish long and lush.