Domaine de Montille Meursault Les Porusots Premier Cru 2017
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Meursault Les Poruzots Premier Cru offers light aromas of yellow stone fruit on the nose with a touch of dried mango. The palate is well balanced with good depth, quite saline in the mouth.
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The de Montilles' 0.57ha of vines are all located on a slope in the upper part of Poruzots. With the subtle, struck-match reduction that's a feature of the domaine's white wine style, this is leesy, textured and refined, with a freshness that reminds you of Puligny-Montrachet.
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James Suckling
Powerful Meursault with lots of candied citrus. But wonderful mineral and citrus freshness lifts the wine at the long finish, giving it elegance that makes you want to order a great piece of turbot right now. Try to wait at least until 2021.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2017 Domaine de Montille Meursault 1er Cru Les Poruzots is a delicious and finely-textured wine. TASTING NOTES: This wine is complex and layered. Pair its alluring aromas and flavors of ripe fruit, earth, and hazelnuts with a delicately-seasoned roast chicken and morels. (Tasted: October 28, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
A touch of leesy reduction that will likely dissipate by the time of bottling mingles with notes of crisp green apple and wheat toast, introducing the 2017 Meursault 1er Cru Les Porusots, a medium to full-bodied, ample and tight-knit wine with attractive purity and a long, saline finish.
Barrel Sample: 90-92
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One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
Known to offer a magical balance of smoothness and freshness, Meursault's quality is hard to rival. The village lies in the middle of Côte de Beaune, just south of Volnay. Meursault is said to mean “mouse’s jump” because in the past the plots producing Pinot Noir and those producing Chardonnay were no more than a mouse’s jump from one another. Today the village is almost exclusively Chardonnay. A tiny bit of Pinot Noir is produced here with the best coming from Les Santenots on its northern side near Volnay.
While there are no Grands Crus, Meursault’s numerous acclaimed Premiers Crus can compete with any other top-notch white Burgundy. Some to know are Les Perrières, Les Genevrières, Les Charmes, Le Poruzot, Les Bouchères and Les Gouttes d’Or.
Meursault produces outstanding village level wines as well. In general great Premiers Crus and even village level Meursault (Chardonnay) have enticing aromas of lime peel, tropical fruit, crushed rocks, spice and hazelnut. On the palate there is a wonderful balance of brightness and a seductive length with flavors of white peach, pineapple and citrus.