Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This has impressive weight and beautifully fused citrus and peach-stone aromas and flavors. The palate has seamless, long and succulent style. All here. Drink now.
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Wine Enthusiast
This is the first vintage from a vineyard purchased by Louis Jadot. Its structure and touches of wood give it richness while never losing the fresh apple flavors and mineral texture. Drink from 2022.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Aromas of almond paste, ripe orchard fruit, lemon confit and honeycomb introduce the 2017 Meursault 1er Cru Charmes (Maison Louis Jadot), a medium to full-bodied, fleshy and layered wine, with good depth, concentration and tangy acids but an open-knit, charming profile.
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Wine & Spirits
This wine’s perfumed fruit and rich, creamy lemon-curd flavors are buried inside the nutmeg and vanilla scents of oak. The wood spice brings out almond notes in the finish, the wine needing bottle age for the fruit to come forward. §
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.