2018 Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Meursault 1er Cru Les Perrières

Community Tasting Notes (5) Median Score: 96 points

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  8/25/2023 - Lehto Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Second bottle of my 30th birthday celebration. About €173 restaurant purchase.
  
  This is pure and simple just greatness. PYCM has really hit an absolute bullseye in the 2018-vintage. There's nothing warm, flabby or acidity-lacking with this!
  
  The nose surprised me greatly at first, because there wasn't this textbook extreme reduction like so many wines from PYCM have. This was soft, elegant and felt so inviting.
  The tension and energy shoot right into the nose. This feels so pure and playful. Citrus fruits, green apple, quince, light oak, butter, roasted nuts, crushed stone and some baking spices.
  
  Now the palate was the true star of this wine... My God. There's something to this wine that I can only describe as completeness.
  The acidity was lazersharp, electric, tense and an absolute energy charge. Lemon juice, lime juice, green apple and greengage. Then comes this amazing creaminess, depth and complexity from pickled lemon, grapefruit, citrus zest, Mirabelle, white and yellow flowers, quince, toasted oak, churned butter, melon and some green banana. A chalky minerality to die for that binds it all together. There's a balance in this that I haven't had before in a still wine.
  
  The best Burgundy I've had so far and also the best and highest-rated still wine I've had at this point. Only champagnes have surpassed this for me.
  Also: Les Perrières should seriously be upgraded to Grand Cru. Meursault deserves it.

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  6/29/2023 - BradE wrote:

  Very good, but slightly less attractive than a bottle in January. The fruit was abundant, with low acidity. Decanted for slightly over an hour, suggest two next time.

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  1/12/2023 - BradE wrote:

  2018 White Burgundy and 2008 Dujac: Great bottle and a great wine, that was a hit with all. Surprisingly (to me at least) this would match up well against any of the recent PYCM Perrieres vintages.

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  8/9/2021 - Ms. Bubblehead Does not like this wine: 87 Points

  PYCM 2018 tasting
  
  Although PYCM did a decent job in this vintage, the vintage is a flat out avoid for white burgundy. This was actually ok, and one of the better bottles from the tasting but people are missing the big picture that this is not a harvest for true burgundy lovers.

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  5/3/2021 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 96 Points

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  Th origine was absoluteöy Burgundy. The style of Burgundy that I like. Reductive, some popcorn, great acidity. Saline, precise. A baby monster but with some air developing his greatness. 95-96

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