Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2017 Meursault Les Narvaux is showing brilliantly from bottle, opening in the glass with scents of citrus oil, white flowers, Anjou pear and freshly baked bread. Medium to full-bodied, tensile and searingly mineral, this is a concentrated but comparatively austere Narvaux that will need time to unwind. Rating: 91+
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: Aside from my love of Puligny-Montrachet, I always become excited with an opportunity to savor a Meursault. The 2017 Domaine Rémi Les Narvaux showed superbly at a recent tasting in a room filled with stars. TASTING NOTES: This wine displays excellent balance and style. Its aroma and flavors of ripe fruit and earth stay long and enticingly on the palate. Pair it with sautéed sea scallops with a piquant Meyer lemon sauce. (Tasted: March 11, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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.