Meursault Lieu-Dit

Bright colour, pure and clear with a slight green tint. A lovely Meursault character to this: ripe yet not clumsy, good acidity, with a range of fresh fruit behind. Lovely tension here.
Jasper Morris, MW - Wine Buyer

Fine, pale lemon, this has a lean and hungry nose, with fine, balanced aromatics. There is excellent length to this for Bouzereau’s basic Meursault. A friendly and enjoyable wine. Drink 2019-2022.
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer

Picking began on 28th August and the whites were brought in across just three days. “It was such a beautiful quality of fruit,” says Jean-Baptiste, “that I couldn't stop eating the grapes.” Good sugar levels have brought alcohols ranging from 12.6 to 13.2 percent and the wines have been elegant right from the start.

A fine, pale lemon colour, there are some very pretty, light herbal notes such as verbena, along with a good intensity of white fruit, just nicely ripe enough. This has a very long finish with lovely mouth-feel. Drink 2019-2023.
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer

Picking began on 28th August and the whites were brought in across just three days. “It was such a beautiful quality of fruit,” says Jean-Baptiste, “that I couldn't stop eating the grapes.” Good sugar levels have brought alcohols ranging from 12.6 to 13.2 percent and the wines have been elegant right from the start.

Jean-Philippe Fichet is a grower from Meursault who is driven by the desire to make great wines. From the second you enter his immaculate cave you know there will be serious wine to be found. The spotless converted barn close by l'Hôpital in Meursault is air-conditioned and provides a welcome relief from his scattered and cramped conditions of a few years ago. Constantly experimenting and refining, his wines have real definition and individuality, with the individual terroirs clearly exposed.

The vines for this cuvée are between 25 and 55 years old, mature enough to produce high-quality wine. Pale in colour, it has the faintest green tint. There is lots of limestone in the soil, which gives the minerality and tension. A little greengage on the palate, this delivers a superb, fresh, hillside Meursault.

Tesson is a good candidate for Meursault’s finest specific lieu-dit. This wine shows a beautiful noble reduction, with dancing fruit behind, elegance and energy. The palate displays yellow fruit at perfect ripeness yet with a magical excitement.
Jasper Morris, MW - Wine Buyer

Jean-Philippe Fichet is very excited with his 2013s, which he picked before the weekend of bad weather. He has also refined his techniques in the cellar, pressing the grapes for longer and settling out the juice less than before; both methods aimed at enhancing the vineyard character of each plot and making less ‘technical’ wines. A lovely range.

Fine yellow with a little green tint, a beautiful bouquet, heady but restrained. The fruit is really tightly wound on the palate, very vigorous yet with some flesh and great length. For medium term ageing but certain to do well. 
Jasper Morris, MW - Wine Buyer

Jean-Baptiste reports hardly any hail damage in 2013 but the crop was nonetheless limited by cold damp weather at the flowering. He began picking on 26th September, with all the whites picked before the wet weekend. Malolactic fermentation took a little longer than usual but no real problems in the cellar. The wines will be bottled in December, or January for the Premiers Crus.

Lighter colour from the upper hillside and with a more mineral nose. Really quite elegant and certainly detailed. Lovely fresh lemons here, very zesty, perhaps the usual lime blossom even. Fine boned, concentrated and very long. Rather impressive.
Jasper Morris MW - Burgundy Wine Director

Discreet wood surrounds ripe white peach, lemon rind and acacia blossom as well as a soft roasted nut character. There is excellent richness yet good detail too to the intense and mouth coating flavors that somewhat curiously, do not have the depth of the Gruyaches or the Chevalières, at least not yet anyway. We'll see in a few years as there is at least the underlying material to develop it. Note however that this is sufficiently forward that there isn't a lot of time in which to do so.
Allen Meadows - burghound.com - February 2011

Discreet and restrained on the nose in its youth, this lovely example of a fine hillside vineyard in Meursault opens out to a fleshier palate, with some fresh fruit, a few floral notes, more lemon than lime, with good persistence.
Jasper Morris MW – Wine Buyer

Richer in style than Jean-Philippe’s Les Chevaliers, this has some floral notes but also a great sense of weight. There is a touch of yellow fruit, and even a little tannin alongside the acidity. Quite frankly, this is a Premier Cru quality wine.
Jasper Morris MW, Berrys' Burgundy Director The model here in Fichet’s ultra-meticulous cellars, near the Hôpital de Meursault, is for the wines to spend one year in wood, with bigger barrels for the lesser appellations, and then for them to be racked into tank for the second winter. We adore Fichet’s style of pure, energetic Meursault while even his Bourgogne Blanc tastes like a superior appellation.

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Nothing heavy-handed here. Fichet brings his customary finesse to this rich and refreshing Meursault. Nutty oak sublimely supports the fruit in a lingering finish.
Edwin Dublin, London Shop Assistant Manager

Medium pale colour, the nose shows the volume of fruit to come. This is more backward than Gruyaches or Chevalières. It boasts an excellent mineral thread with greengage fruit, middleweight, structure and persistence.

Jean-Philippe is serene in the knowledge of the quality of his 2014 vintage. The grapes were entirely healthy, there were no problems in vinification, the maturation process is happening as it should and the wines are set to give a great deal of pleasure all round. There is less reduction than last year, so they will be accessible reasonably early, while still having good keeping potential.

A touch more colour on this wine, and an attractive aromatic nose, with ripe pears, weight through the middle, and very good length. The potential is clearly there but this needs more time.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director

Jean-Baptiste Bouzereau began picking on 17th September, the same day as in 2010, and harvested over eight days. Overall the yield was around 30 hl/ha with the lower-lying vineyards such as Bourgogne Blanc and Meursault Genevrières the least affected. Even the badly hailed vines reached maturity and there was no rot to speak of. Indeed, Jean-Baptiste has found the 2012s easy enough to handle once the grapes were picked. All the wines were racked before the new harvest, and those from Tessons upwards have been returned to barrel but with no more new wood.

A small cuvée from a vineyard adjacent to Auxey-Duresses, there are some light notes of barrel toast in the friendly bouquet, with generous fruit that avoids being too full of sunshine in this cooler location. This will be attractive early. Drink 2018-2022.
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer

Sébastien began picking his whites on 31st August, then paused before attacking the reds. He made no change to his usual vinification practice of long maceration without forceful extraction, having de-stemmed the grapes. Sébastien comments positively on the well ripened tannins and notes that the wines have been tasting well throughout their time in barrel.

This solid, substantial, weighty Meursault is mouth-filling and excellently balanced, and will develop into a fabulously long-lived wine. Its true power may yet be hidden but this promises to become truly divine.