Winemaker Notes
Pairs well with seafood, grilled fish, and white meats.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: Meursault always touches a soft spot on my palate, but the 2015 Vincent Girardin Les Narvaux exploded with extreme fruit purity. TASTING NOTES: This wine is delicious. Its aromas and flavors of ripe fruit and accents of hazelnut make it a perfect pairing partner with steamed bass in a light sesame-soy sauce. (Tasted: June 7, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2015 Meursault Les Narvaux is showing well, delivering aromas of pear, citrus oil, freshly baked bread and toasted nuts, followed by a medium- to full-bodied, layered and attractively dense, textural palate, concluding with a saline finish. This is very well balanced in this vintage, and it's drinking well today.
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.