Winemaker Notes
This bright, pale yellow Meursault has an intense nose, with smoky, toasty notes and a hint of oak. There are aromas of hazelnut, vanilla and white peach. The palate is full-bodied and very long, with notes of fresh almond and a beautiful, resin-like finish.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
There's a lovely freshness and tension here with aromas of sliced lemons, white peaches, struck match, flint, orange blossoms and butter cookies. The midweight palate is fleshed out with a generous mouthfeel, balanced acidity and a slight phenolic edge. Great minerality and purity with an underlying power.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
The 2023 Louis Latour Meursault-Blagny Château de Blagny Premier Cru, perched high on the slope between Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet, is a masterfully crafted wine. It offers precise notes of tart apple, citrus zest, garden herbs, and crushed stone, all wrapped in a mineral-driven frame. For a culinary match that mirrors its elegance and texture, try Oysters Rockefeller Gyoza, pan-seared to a delicate crisp, finished with a spritz of lemon, and served alongside a kombu-infused beurre blanc. Tasted: June 27, 2025, San Rafael, CA).
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Wine Spectator
Fresh, juicy and expressive, this white delivers flavors of peach, apple, flowers, honey and baking spices. Balanced, charming and enticing, offering terrific balance and fine length.
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.