Wine Advocate: 90-92 Points
The 2022 Meursault 1er Cru Santenots reveals a gently reductive bouquet of pear white flowers toasted nuts and freshly baked bread followed by a medium to full-bodied satiny and seamless palate that's impressively bright and mineral for such a sunny terroir in so warm a vintage. Guillaume d'Angerville and technical director François Duvivier once again opted to pick early in 2022 beginning harvest on August 23 to produce a crop of pure fine-boned perfumed reds that will delight Burgundy purists. As I've written before followers of d'Angerville will be familiar with the protocol here: biodynamic farming destemmed grapes classical macerations and élevage in barrels?of which some 20% are new with older barrels generally being retained for five vintages. These have always been seriously long-lived wines but contemporary d'Angerville isn't quite as backward and slow to evolve as the wines were in the days of Guillaume d'Angerville's father. The use of barrels with a somewhat younger average age?even if percentages of new wood remain very modest?gives them a slightly glossier patina especially in their youth. Published: Jan 18 2024
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