Winemaker Notes
Great with sea food, grilled fish and white meat.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
Sleek and intense, packed with apple, lime, butterscotch and mineral flavors, this white starts out expressive and doesn’t quit. Balanced in a sleek way, with a long, complex finish. Drink now through 2025.
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Wine & Spirits
This grows at a parcel of 55-year-old vines above the premier cru Les Genevrières. It offers a salty, flinty blast of Meursault character, the pale, ripe fruit holding cool and clean even as its energy feels like a powder keg. The wine’s mineral intensity keeps giving while the texture feels tight and graceful, a dynamic contrast that suggests that there will be fascinating developments to come with bottle age.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2016 Meursault Les Narvaux benefited from extensive frost protection and thus outperforms in this heterogenous white Burgundy vintage. Offering up aromas of pear, peach, iodine and white flowers, along with flinty reductive top notes, it's medium- to full-bodied, satiny and seamless, with bright acids and a rather open, giving mid-palate.
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.