Domaine Francois Mikulski Meursault Les Genevrieres Premier Cru 2017
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Wilfred
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2017 François Mikulski Meursault Genevrières 1er Cru is one of the top white Burgundies of the vintage. TASTING NOTES. This wine is enticing and complete from start to finish. Its aromas and flavors of decisive chalk, lively mineral, and green apple are endless and beautiful on the palate and in the finish. Give it time in the cellar before opening. (Tasted: March 11, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
François’ Mikulski’s father was Lieutenant Mieczyslaw Mikulski who escaped from occupied Poland in 1939, fleeing to England and joining the Resistance troops of the Free Polish Forces. There he met his future wife, a Burgundian woman working on an English army base, and moved to Brussels where François was born and raised. Luckily for us and the world of wine, François spent his formative summers in Burgundy, where he fell in love with the agrarian lifestyle and determined that he would one day make wine himself. He inherited his first plots of Meursault in 1992 from his late uncle, Pierre Boillot. Since that time, he has relentlessly pursued his authenticity, purity and elegance through acute attention to biological balance in the vineyard and terroir minded élevage practices in the cellar. After meticulous sorting in the vineyards the grapes are de-stemmed and lightly pressed. Natural yeasts are used in the fermentation after which the wines undergo an élevage 10-12 months. François typically restrains his new oak use to about 20%, believing that excessive wood masks full expression of the terroir.