2014 Domaine / Maison Vincent Girardin Meursault 1er Cru Les Perrières

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 92.9 points

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  4/7/2024 - jfpwine Likes this wine: 91 Points

  This bottle felt slightly more advanced than the others I enjoyed over the past few years. Light gold color. Initially the nose displayed ripe aromas of lemon and slight stone fruit. Very mineral on the palate, with chalk and wet rocks. Long finish. I think my timing was great with this one. Drink.

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  2/4/2024 - LWI wrote: 94 Points

  Ungdommelig, nerve, bakt sitron, balansert og lang.

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  1/1/2024 - dagij Likes this wine: 94 Points

  A serious Meursault that touches grand cru quality. Some evolved straw color, but the core is still brilliant. Fantastic nose where a succulent fruit in the vein of peach, some pineapple, and some yellow plums is balanced by fresh citrus tones and a mineral, iron tone. Full bodied attack, beautiful balance between sweet fruit and acidity on the mid palate. Fine acidity lift the finish into a long aftertaste where spice tones (vanilla, cardamom) adds even more complexity. Very long. This wine is perfect to drink now, but will clearly age positive for the next decade, and will probably be interesting to follow on its way down over the next decade for those who like old white burgundies. We drank it with lobster bisque with large chunks of perfectly boiled lobster, and it was a match made in heaven.

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  12/10/2023 - dagij Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Yes, this is just good. And still: it is amazingly young at almost ten years. Greenish straw color with bright glimmering. Brilliant. Intense and broad nose of vervain, citrus, green apples, and tons of new oak (coconut, vanilla and christmas spices). Full bodied attack, very fine balance between sweet citrus and exotic fruit sweetness and a searing acidity. Very good length, but the aftertaste is somewhat cluttered by some heavy coconut tones that overshadow the fine raisin fruit. An impressive wine that as been oaked too much. This wine will probably never shed that oaky feel. A pity. But, hey!, this is still a beautiful wine, it is only that it could have been even better.

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  10/7/2022 - dagij Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Straw color verging on golden, but still with a young, intense greenness. Classic nose dominated by green apples, lime, peach, topped with nuts, butter and chalk. Complexity is just the first name. Full bodied attack, lots of butter and nuts up front that soon give way to ripe tropical fruit like peach, pineapple and pear. The ripe fruit is perfectly balanced by a searing acidity, somewhat untypical for a Meursault but still just beautiful. The aftertaste is lifted into tones of citrus, green apples, a hint of pineapple and a nutty feel. Very long. This was drunk together with a Bonneau de Matray Corton Charlemagne 2007 in perfect shape, and the two wines were in fact quite similar, although this is more fatty and round. The 1er cru is just as good as the Grand Cru. Still young, so decant some hours before drinking.

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