Latour-Giraud - Meursault 1er Cru Charmes 2022 (750ml)
Price: $180.00
| Producer | Latour-Giraud |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Varietal | Chardonnay |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 8823 |
| Size | 750ml |
Jasper Morris: 91-94 Points
Medium to full lemon yellow. The nose has the sensuous richness which characterises Charmes and the oak seems more prominent. No more new oak has been used for the Charmes but a particular barrel may have given this buttery edge. Jean-Pierre plans to fine this a little more to bring it more into line with the others. The core wine on the palate has the distinction of the other Meursaults though the buttery note resurfaces at the finish. I have lowered the score based on today?s tasting but have confidence that the final wine will merit more. In fact the finish encourages me to go up again. Nine barrels two new one an experiment one traditional in its toasting.
jmBurghound: 93 Points
Sweet spot Outstanding Note: from 35+ year old vines in Charmes Dessus Producer note: Jean-Pierre Latour described the 2022 growing season as "one that was one of the hottest and driest on record yet inexplicably one that produced fresh vibrant and classically styled wines! It was also one where we had just enough rain at just the right moments to mostly avoid hydric stress in the vineyards. We also managed to avoid any climatic incidences such as frost and hail or at least none that did any real damage. We began picking on the 24th of August and brought in super-clean and ripe fruit with good but certainly not high yields that ranged between 35 to 40 hl/ha. Potential alcohols were also reasonable at 13 to 13.5% with solid acidities. As to the wines one surprising aspect is how much subtlety they have developed during the course of the élevage as they were somewhat monolithic just after the fermentations. Now that they're in bottle they remind me a great deal of what we produced in 2014 which to me is a high compliment as I love the style and quality of 2014." I have said this before but if you're not searching out these wines you're missing out on one of the best kept secrets in Meursault. They along with domaines Henri Germain Ballot-Millot and Michel Bouzereau consistently offer outstanding quality for quite reasonable prices. Either way the Latour 2022s are first-rate and every wine is highly recommended. Latour noted that his 2022 whites were bottled in January and February 2024. (Atherton Wine Imports www.awiwine.com CA Chemin des Vins www.chemindesvins.com MA both USA; Bibendum Wine Ltd. www.bibendum-wine.co.uk Thorman Hunt & Co. www.thormanhunt.co.uk and Atlas Fine Wines www.atlasfinewines.com UK; Shanghai Vinchamp International Trading Co. Ltd. www.vinchamp.com Shanghai China). Tasting note: Like the Bouchères this is also relatively firmly reduced. On the palate though there is both excellent freshness and verve suffusing the finer and sleeker middleweight flavors that exude evident minerality on the impressively complex long and impeccably well-balanced finale. This is excellent and a wine that should easily repay a decade plus of keeping. Highly recommended particularly for those who enjoy cellaring their whites.
jm
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