Domaine Roulot - Meursault Les Tessons Clos de Mon Plaisir 2022 (750ml)
Price: $400.00
| Producer | Domaine Roulot |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Subregion | Meursault |
| Varietal | Chardonnay |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 9502 |
| Size | 750ml |
Decanter: 95 Points
A soft elegant wine with a very fine floral aroma and hints of ripe nectarine smoke and minerality that Paul Delorme characterises as 'delicatesse en plus' (extra delicate). The palate is almost salty with abundant (but not excessive) acidity that keeps the wine lively and brings great finesse. The grapes come from 0.85ha in Les Tessons a prime mid-slope parcel on 40?50cm of clay similar to Luchets. (Drink between 2027-2050)
vWine Advocate: 92-94 Points
The 2022 Meursault À Mon Plaisir Clos du Haut Tesson unwinds in the glass with aromas of pear green apple and citrus zest mingled with white flowers freshly baked bread crushed mint and stuck match. Medium to full-bodied satiny and suave it's deep and layered with lively acids and a long stony finish. Jean-Marc Roulot seemed happy with his 2022 portfolio a vintage that has the merits of combining high quality with normal quantity narrowly avoiding spring frosts thanks to dry windy weather. The order of the day here is crushing before pneumatic pressing with pressure increasing in small increments to deliver a large juice yield for comparatively little pressure. In the cellar as has been the case for several years Roulot is using less new oak adding ceramic vessels and foudres. Everything I tasted was as usual on the lees in stainless steel where the wines spend six months after their first year in barrel. The other news at this address even if it's outside the purview of this publication is that Roulot is producing a series of eaux de vie de Marc de Bourgogne from his different lieux-dits which makes for a fascinating comparative tasting just as it's fascinating to compare their vinous equivalents side by side. Published: Jan 18 2024
Jasper Morris: 92-94 Points
Fresh lemon yellow. The bouquet has a slight bitter apple touch post sulphur. Now the expected white fruit comes out. Plenty of energy here on the palate as one would hope in fact it keeps kicking on displaying an excellent fruit acid balance now in pure white orchard fruit then a fine persistent finish.
Burghound: 92-94 Points
Cool elegant and layered aromas are comprised by notes of Granny Smith apple citrus rind and plenty of floral elements are t
Vinous: 90-92 Points
The 2022 Meursault Les Tessons was another cuvée showing some reduction on the nose making it difficult to read at the moment. The palate is well-balanced a little backward and reticent at the moment. A keen silver bead of acidity keeps it on its toes and there's an elegant finish but it doesn't have the presence of the Les Narvaux. Let's see how this will show once in bottle. - By Neal Martin on October 2023 Jean-Marc Roulot was at a meeting with architects when I visited. He plans to construct a new rear building to increase barrel space which will enable him to extend the duration of barrel aging and separate the white and the red vinification. Here they feel that the 120mm of rain that fell in Meursault during the weeklong spell of showers at the end of June saved the vintage benefiting from two or three spells of heavy downpours instead of one deluge which would have resulted in much of the water running off. The harvest began on August 25 until September 5 commencing with younger vines in various plots where they observed rapid escalation in alcohol levels. Alcohol levels are between 12.7% and 13.2% without adjustment and all the wines were racked just before harvest. At the time of my visit at the end of October they were in stainless steel with bottling planned for February or March. I tasted through the complete range of 2022s and 2021s in bottle the depleted volumes of the latter meaning that they were bottled en magnum the previous June and July. It was a fascinating contrast between those two dichotomous vintages and it was certainly not the case that one trumped the other. It depends on the cuvée. I often feel that Roulot?s ?heart? lies in his exceptional articulation of Meursault Villages which are advantaged under global warming. The Meix Chavaux and Narvaux deserve a small flotilla of superlatives. Within the Premier Crus I was smitten by the Clos des Bouchères which had the gall to outshine Les Perrières though the Les Charmes will fight it out for supremacy once in bottle.
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