CNY drinks (Casa Esperanza): This is drinking beautifully now. I loved the nose of this, with its classic Meursault Perrieres aromas of cream and freshly churned butter, fresh cut apples, white fruit, and a nice dose of flinty, stony mineral. The palate was really on-point too - soft, round, yet with a sneaky energy and definition to it, with well-cut but superbly integrated acidity and a lovely sense of minerality fused though its pure, limpid mouthful of white fruit, lemons and flint. There was an effortless sense of almost Grand Cru depth and intensity to it all, wed to a grace and elegance that really belied its power. A lovely Meursault Perrieres, drinking beautifully now.
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Lunch at Summer Pavilion (Summer Pavilion, Ritz Carlton, Singapore): Good, but still needs time to fill up. The nose had a nice melange of white fruit, chalk and slatey minerality along with rounder, more buttery Meursault notes. The palate was still really tight though, with linear 2008 acidity and a real streak of minerality underlining crunchy flavours of green apples with a hint of nectarines at the side. Lovely cut and freshness, a good ripe depth too, but this needs a bit of time yet.
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Still tight and rather closed I thought. Tense terse mineral acidity and Limey stonefruits. Definitely clean crisp and pure styled. Though v muted right now.
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Nutmeg, peach, some honey and autumnal notes on the nose. Quite full, very intense on the palate, fresh, fruity, spicy, rather wild and primary yet extremely drinkable. Some minerality. Spicy finish. Nutty aftertaste with some apricots. Very nice!
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Melon, lemon, flint and some warmer baking spice tones. Dry mid-weight palate with lovely grainy acidity, tight fruit and slight oak presence. Butter, nuts, lemon sherbet, honeydew and mustard seeds. Very nice style. Lean but ripe. Still a bit tight. Needs further cellaring to really deliver.
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Really stunning bottle of white burgundy. Constantly shifted and evolved in the glass, every sniff and sip was different to the last. Oatmeal, lemon, bookshelf, mineral, chalk, custard and much more. Stunning palate that mirror the evolving nose, showed supreme balance and length. Excelllent!
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Clean mineral white Limey almost Chablis like chalky palate. A light footed meursault. Elegant and sleek. Back on form. A wine that never seems to satisfy and makes u thirst for more. Quaffable yet a thinking wine
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JM's Old World Education (Pine Close): Lovely. This bottle was bang back on form, and a confirmation that the last one we had in Sept 2012 was suffering to some extent from bottle-shock having just arrived on our shores. This had a typically subtle Dancer nose, with sweet melons and ripe apple aromas seasoned with a touch of spice and plenty of nice, limestoney mineral. Hard to pick up the Meursault-ness on that bouquet; the palate was more revealing though. Creamily textured and generously flavoured on the attack with ripe red apples and sweet lemons, this showed good weight and depth wed to a beautifully focused, almost linear feel that guided the wine, laser-like, all the way into a fresh finish of lovely length. Here, light honeyed tones were touched with a pinch of spice and underlined by a tremendous, almost stony minerality that harked back to the Perrières vineyard. Still young, still a bit primary, but this was so elegantly wrought, with wonderful integration and beautiful balance, that it was a joy to drink even in its relative youth. Will be superb in 5 years or so.
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(jm's old world education@paulS') Light honey/straw in glass. Light soy sauce nose, with light citruses, burnt butter, honey and freshly shucked oysters. Impressive, dry minerality on tasting, with juicy acid, all softly tempered, balanced and linear. Light, dusty melons and apricots. Paired beautifully with the garlicky bits in Paul's lovely squid pasta, now showing soft creamy apples and shale minerality and limestone. Impressive weight and clarity - beautiful stuff!
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Dinner at New Ubin Seafood (New Ubin Seafood): Good stuff. This bottle had barely landed on our shores before it was popped, so it may have been going through a mild case of bottle shock. Nevertheless though, it was a great little example of Les Perrières. The nose had a clear Meursault character, showing fleshy white fruited scent and bits of butter and cream, but it was also ever so minerally, with a chalky, earthy note and a flinty edge to it. Rather tight on the night, but I liked what it showed. Same thing with the palate - not quite as expressive nor as open as when we had this in barrel last year and again at an earlier tasting a few months back, the palate showed rich, fleshy, white fruited tone, plenty of power here, yet underscored by lovely 2008 focus and balance that kept it really precise. I also liked the juicy acidity on the midpalate and the super minerally finish that seemed to show just effortless length. A very good, quite beautifully crafted wine, but its needs time to show. This is one I wold try again in a couple of years.
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Guava fruits tropical with simple forwardness. Sappy acidity. Also quite well balanced. On knowing what this was, was a bit disappointed as this bot tasted different from the cleaner style tasted at burgundy. Felt simpler and more tropical without the purity we first noted. This bot did land abt month ago so hopefully it's bottle shock.
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Judgment of Singapore: Part 1 - Chardonnay and Syrah (Zeffir, Dunlop Street): This was excellent. It pushed the eventual white wine of the night (a lovely 2004 Leflavie Batard) all the way. Opening with slightly funky, cheesy accents on the nose, these gave way to a touch of smoke and flinty minerality, a little layer of oak, and then ripe stone fruit notes, almost apricots there. All in all, rather sweet-smelling for a 2008, but wed as it was to real undertow of minerally accents, still clearly Burgundian. The palate was a wonderful expression of the terroir. Rich, slightly oily textured, with some creaminess layered over sweet lemons and ripe apple and melon flavours, this had a good bit of fruit and all of the voluptuousness you would expect from a Meursault 1er Cru. However, while the acidity was just a tad lower than on the 2004 Batard, it was still brilliantly balanced, with a lovely sense of fresh and precision, even if it was definitely on the fleshier side for a Perrières. The terroir really spoke on the finish though, where the sweet, fleshy fruit was underscored by a beautiful streak of stony minerality and a nice ream of spice that stretched away into the distance. The wine has opened up and fleshed out quite a bit from when we last tried it at the domaine a year ago. In contrast, it seems to have lost just a touch of the zen-like litheness that I remembered from back then, but it is nevertheless a lovely wine. Still very young, this will reward patience in the cellar. One to try again in four to five years.
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There were three problems with this wine 1) it was on a hiding to nothing coming after the Roulot. 2) whenever I drink a wine from Vincent Dancer I get an incessant loop of ‘hold me closer Vincent Dancer’ playing in my head for at least an hour or two and 3) it was just a bit too over the top with all of its smoky, ripe orchard fruits. Sure it has some ‘Perrieres’ line buried below all the fat but it’s too boisterous at the moment. We were also given a complimentary glass of 2006 Vincent Girardin Meursault ‘Genevrieres’ which was rich and heady with plenty of oak and just lacking a bit of cut.
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Manuka honey and white florals. Creamy mushrooms with white truffles. Excellent balance and Deliciously juicy relaxed and really fine. Minerality lacings thru the wine.
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Manuka honey on the nose. Light n subtle, hints of green apple n slightly sour fruits. P: Mushrooms, apricots, creamy and elegant with a lingering aftertaste.
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Burgundy 2011 Day 1: Visit to Domaine Vincent Dancer (Chassagne-Montrachet): This was incredibly good. If ever there was a case made for Perrieres to be elevated to a Grand Cru, this would be it. It had beautiful nose, pure Perrieres, with gentle white fruit scents layered with buttery cream, mushrooms – ceps perhaps – manuka honey and white flowers, all laced with a serious streak of stony mineral that just grew and grew in the glass. The palate was every bit as impressive. Melting acidity framed mouthcoating flavours of honey, white fruit, cream and more mushroomy notes – wild truffles this time. Lots of weight and concentration, but such was the pitch perfect balance on this that it appeared relaxed, almost effortless. The finish was long and creamy, but laced with a gentle freshness and serious, flinty minerality. This was a hugely impressive wine, and a real pleasure to sip. Brilliant, and its best years are still ahead of it.
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This noble 1er Cru has a medium intense yellow core and a distinctly green tinge. It’s medium-minus intense on the nose, yet intensely mineral and typical to its terroir. Notes of pebbles and some toast are balanced by melony fruit, a lemon rind note and an acacia afterthought. The medium-plus body is paired with pronounced acidity and ditto concentration. As young as this wine is, seriously intense flavours of lime, a vast mineral streak and a tiny hazelnut accent culminate in an impressive 35-40 second finish, which displays all the aforementioned complexity while adding some pistacchio. I was a mite prejudiced against this domaine, as I recall some rather indifferent wines –mainly reds- from the beginning of this century. This Perrières however, deserves 92 points and that score will prove to be conservative once this puppy hits its stride. TN Mike de Lange .
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8/12/2023 - burgundyman wrote: 94 Points
In the zone. Perfect maturity with a little sulphur/solids complexity.
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2/6/2023 - burgundyman Likes this wine: 96 Points
In a perfect place.
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2/4/2022 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points
CNY drinks (Casa Esperanza): This is drinking beautifully now. I loved the nose of this, with its classic Meursault Perrieres aromas of cream and freshly churned butter, fresh cut apples, white fruit, and a nice dose of flinty, stony mineral. The palate was really on-point too - soft, round, yet with a sneaky energy and definition to it, with well-cut but superbly integrated acidity and a lovely sense of minerality fused though its pure, limpid mouthful of white fruit, lemons and flint. There was an effortless sense of almost Grand Cru depth and intensity to it all, wed to a grace and elegance that really belied its power. A lovely Meursault Perrieres, drinking beautifully now.
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12/26/2018 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Lunch at Summer Pavilion (Summer Pavilion, Ritz Carlton, Singapore): Good, but still needs time to fill up. The nose had a nice melange of white fruit, chalk and slatey minerality along with rounder, more buttery Meursault notes. The palate was still really tight though, with linear 2008 acidity and a real streak of minerality underlining crunchy flavours of green apples with a hint of nectarines at the side. Lovely cut and freshness, a good ripe depth too, but this needs a bit of time yet.
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7/22/2017 - vinhonotte Likes this wine: 88 Points
Cellaraid - Chardonnay Corfefe Luncheon and red wine based Dinner (Tonny's Restaurant): clear, deep lemon; clean, pronounced nose of melon, honey and chives; dry, medium acidity, medium alcohol, full body, intensely flavoured, of lemon, melon, wet stones, with a medium finish; good wine; drink now
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7/19/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
Meursault les Perrières Dinner, Top Producers (The Bristol - Chicago IL): In 02/04/08 vertical. Lemon and green apple start-to-finish. Very dense with intense minerality throughout. Good to start, better an hour later. Best 2020-.
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4/4/2015 - WillersC wrote: 92 Points
Very nice but not as good as my previous bottle
Quite fat for a Perrieres, but excellent length and flavour. Tendering towards richness
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12/25/2014 - Alex H wrote: 88 Points
Still tight and rather closed I thought. Tense terse mineral acidity and Limey stonefruits. Definitely clean crisp and pure styled. Though v muted right now.
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7/10/2013 - igaf wrote:
Nutmeg, peach, some honey and autumnal notes on the nose. Quite full, very intense on the palate, fresh, fruity, spicy, rather wild and primary yet extremely drinkable. Some minerality. Spicy finish. Nutty aftertaste with some apricots. Very nice!
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7/10/2013 - avp wrote:
Melon, lemon, flint and some warmer baking spice tones.
Dry mid-weight palate with lovely grainy acidity, tight fruit and slight oak presence. Butter, nuts, lemon sherbet, honeydew and mustard seeds.
Very nice style. Lean but ripe. Still a bit tight. Needs further cellaring to really deliver.
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5/25/2013 - WillersC wrote: 95 Points
Really stunning bottle of white burgundy. Constantly shifted and evolved in the glass, every sniff and sip was different to the last. Oatmeal, lemon, bookshelf, mineral, chalk, custard and much more. Stunning palate that mirror the evolving nose, showed supreme balance and length. Excelllent!
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1/31/2013 - Alex H wrote: 89 Points
Clean mineral white Limey almost Chablis like chalky palate. A light footed meursault. Elegant and sleek. Back on form. A wine that never seems to satisfy and makes u thirst for more. Quaffable yet a thinking wine
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12/30/2012 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
JM's Old World Education (Pine Close): Lovely. This bottle was bang back on form, and a confirmation that the last one we had in Sept 2012 was suffering to some extent from bottle-shock having just arrived on our shores. This had a typically subtle Dancer nose, with sweet melons and ripe apple aromas seasoned with a touch of spice and plenty of nice, limestoney mineral. Hard to pick up the Meursault-ness on that bouquet; the palate was more revealing though. Creamily textured and generously flavoured on the attack with ripe red apples and sweet lemons, this showed good weight and depth wed to a beautifully focused, almost linear feel that guided the wine, laser-like, all the way into a fresh finish of lovely length. Here, light honeyed tones were touched with a pinch of spice and underlined by a tremendous, almost stony minerality that harked back to the Perrières vineyard. Still young, still a bit primary, but this was so elegantly wrought, with wonderful integration and beautiful balance, that it was a joy to drink even in its relative youth. Will be superb in 5 years or so.
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12/30/2012 - JerM wrote: 94 Points
(jm's old world education@paulS') Light honey/straw in glass. Light soy sauce nose, with light citruses, burnt butter, honey and freshly shucked oysters. Impressive, dry minerality on tasting, with juicy acid, all softly tempered, balanced and linear. Light, dusty melons and apricots. Paired beautifully with the garlicky bits in Paul's lovely squid pasta, now showing soft creamy apples and shale minerality and limestone. Impressive weight and clarity - beautiful stuff!
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9/22/2012 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
Dinner at New Ubin Seafood (New Ubin Seafood): Good stuff. This bottle had barely landed on our shores before it was popped, so it may have been going through a mild case of bottle shock. Nevertheless though, it was a great little example of Les Perrières. The nose had a clear Meursault character, showing fleshy white fruited scent and bits of butter and cream, but it was also ever so minerally, with a chalky, earthy note and a flinty edge to it. Rather tight on the night, but I liked what it showed. Same thing with the palate - not quite as expressive nor as open as when we had this in barrel last year and again at an earlier tasting a few months back, the palate showed rich, fleshy, white fruited tone, plenty of power here, yet underscored by lovely 2008 focus and balance that kept it really precise. I also liked the juicy acidity on the midpalate and the super minerally finish that seemed to show just effortless length. A very good, quite beautifully crafted wine, but its needs time to show. This is one I wold try again in a couple of years.
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5/20/2012 - Alex H wrote: 85 Points
Guava fruits tropical with simple forwardness. Sappy acidity. Also quite well balanced. On knowing what this was, was a bit disappointed as this bot tasted different from the cleaner style tasted at burgundy. Felt simpler and more tropical without the purity we first noted. This bot did land abt month ago so hopefully it's bottle shock.
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5/18/2012 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Judgment of Singapore: Part 1 - Chardonnay and Syrah (Zeffir, Dunlop Street): This was excellent. It pushed the eventual white wine of the night (a lovely 2004 Leflavie Batard) all the way. Opening with slightly funky, cheesy accents on the nose, these gave way to a touch of smoke and flinty minerality, a little layer of oak, and then ripe stone fruit notes, almost apricots there. All in all, rather sweet-smelling for a 2008, but wed as it was to real undertow of minerally accents, still clearly Burgundian. The palate was a wonderful expression of the terroir. Rich, slightly oily textured, with some creaminess layered over sweet lemons and ripe apple and melon flavours, this had a good bit of fruit and all of the voluptuousness you would expect from a Meursault 1er Cru. However, while the acidity was just a tad lower than on the 2004 Batard, it was still brilliantly balanced, with a lovely sense of fresh and precision, even if it was definitely on the fleshier side for a Perrières. The terroir really spoke on the finish though, where the sweet, fleshy fruit was underscored by a beautiful streak of stony minerality and a nice ream of spice that stretched away into the distance. The wine has opened up and fleshed out quite a bit from when we last tried it at the domaine a year ago. In contrast, it seems to have lost just a touch of the zen-like litheness that I remembered from back then, but it is nevertheless a lovely wine. Still very young, this will reward patience in the cellar. One to try again in four to five years.
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10/19/2011 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
There were three problems with this wine 1) it was on a hiding to nothing coming after the Roulot. 2) whenever I drink a wine from Vincent Dancer I get an incessant loop of ‘hold me closer Vincent Dancer’ playing in my head for at least an hour or two and 3) it was just a bit too over the top with all of its smoky, ripe orchard fruits. Sure it has some ‘Perrieres’ line buried below all the fat but it’s too boisterous at the moment. We were also given a complimentary glass of 2006 Vincent Girardin Meursault ‘Genevrieres’ which was rich and heady with plenty of oak and just lacking a bit of cut.
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7/1/2011 - Alex H wrote: 91 Points
Manuka honey and white florals. Creamy mushrooms with white truffles. Excellent balance and
Deliciously juicy relaxed and really fine. Minerality lacings thru the wine.
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6/2/2011 - Mingmong wrote: 92 Points
Manuka honey on the nose. Light n subtle, hints of green apple n slightly sour fruits. P: Mushrooms, apricots, creamy and elegant with a lingering aftertaste.
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5/16/2011 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points
Burgundy 2011 Day 1: Visit to Domaine Vincent Dancer (Chassagne-Montrachet): This was incredibly good. If ever there was a case made for Perrieres to be elevated to a Grand Cru, this would be it. It had beautiful nose, pure Perrieres, with gentle white fruit scents layered with buttery cream, mushrooms – ceps perhaps – manuka honey and white flowers, all laced with a serious streak of stony mineral that just grew and grew in the glass. The palate was every bit as impressive. Melting acidity framed mouthcoating flavours of honey, white fruit, cream and more mushroomy notes – wild truffles this time. Lots of weight and concentration, but such was the pitch perfect balance on this that it appeared relaxed, almost effortless. The finish was long and creamy, but laced with a gentle freshness and serious, flinty minerality. This was a hugely impressive wine, and a real pleasure to sip. Brilliant, and its best years are still ahead of it.
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6/23/2010 - Barry Rothof wrote: 92 Points
This noble 1er Cru has a medium intense yellow core and a distinctly green tinge. It’s medium-minus intense on the nose, yet intensely mineral and typical to its terroir. Notes of pebbles and some toast are balanced by melony fruit, a lemon rind note and an acacia afterthought.
The medium-plus body is paired with pronounced acidity and ditto concentration. As young as this wine is, seriously intense flavours of lime, a vast mineral streak and a tiny hazelnut accent culminate in an impressive 35-40 second finish, which displays all the aforementioned complexity while adding some pistacchio.
I was a mite prejudiced against this domaine, as I recall some rather indifferent wines –mainly reds- from the beginning of this century. This Perrières however, deserves 92 points and that score will prove to be conservative once this puppy hits its stride.
TN Mike de Lange .
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