Domaine Pernot Belicard Meursault Vielles Vignes 2022 HALF Bottle (37.5cl)

Description

Philippe Pernot’s Puligny-Montrachet is a lovely white Burgundy with classic citrus, stone fruit and light honey flavours. It is medium to full in body and very juicy, with good concentration of flavour along with a fine, elegant frame. There is, as expected from a Meursault, so much to enjoy from this wine, and it’s extremely long finish points to a high-quality example of Meursault that will not disappoint. It’s great for drinking now or will keep well till 2028 easily in half bottle.

Philippe Pernot married Madame Belicard, hence the name of the Pernot-Belicard domaine. The vineyards are hers, but he farms them and makes the wines, and will add his own vineyards to the mix on inheriting them from his father, another well-respected local farmer, Paul Pernot. Meursault vineyards sit just to the north of Puligny-Montrachet and Chassagne-Montrachet, in Burgundy’s sub-region of Cote de Beaune. Many rate these as the finest whites in the world given the crystalline purity and depth of flavour they can achieve. Meursault has a reputation for being richer than the two other appellations above, with a slightly nutty flavour, but in reality it really does depend on the work in the vineyard and the winemaker, and the style they want to achieve. This Meursault is a ‘Vieilles’ Vignes’ ie a wine from old vines; in fact the grapes were grown on two different vineyard parcels, one named Les Pellans which was planted in 1988, and one, Les Pelles Dessus, which was planted all the way back in 1946!  The grapes were harvested by hand, pressed and then put straight into oak barrels for fermentation (20% of which were new oak barrels) and malo-lactic fermentation, followed by ageing. The wine was aged in total for 16 months before a light filtration and fining, and then bottling.