Domaine Bitouzet-Prieur Meursault 1er Cru 'Les Perrieres' 2023

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Domaine Bitouzet-Prieur Meursault 1er Cru 'Les Perrieres' 2023Franois owns just over a quarter hectare of Chardonnay, planted in 1983, in the lower part of this fabled premier cru (Les Perrires Dessous) , situated immediately above Les Charmes on the slope. Always the most dazzlingly mineral wine in their lineup, Bitouzets Meursault Perrires offers a tight grained, tunneling, borderline saline palate that can be almost overwhelming in youth, but unfailingly blossoms gradually into a white Burgundy of layered

The high altitude (400 meters) and sandy limestone of this site produce a wine of striking poise and penetrating minerality

From 25-year-old vines in the Champs Rouge vineyard in Passenans

A slightly higher proportion of Nebbiolo here (around 90%) amplifies the wine’s muscularity

it is the most elegant of Gahier’s whites: viscerally salty and rich

“Mar y Muntanya” (“Sea and Mountains” in Catalan) combines 45% each Syrah and Carignan with a splash of Grenache

and Clos de la Roche to the south and west

Sourced from the vineyards abutting the two streams that intersect on the estate

Aged for 2 years in small barrels that are not topped off

Simultaneously round and racy

the freshness of these southern-Danube sites shines through

5-hectare parcel of early-1980s-planted Pinot Noir in the village of Fontaines

Vinified and aged in steel with no added sulfur at any point