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

This Meursault wine from Javillier has a most beguiling nose, reminiscent of lime blossom, just what's wanted in 2009. Medium bodied with the typical rounded Meursault mouth feel, but also with a pure fresh minerality owing to the hillside site. It’s just coming into its own, but with three or more years ahead.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director

This higher vineyard above the village, southeast- facing, was entirely frost-free this year. W hen we tasted, it was showing as quite fresh, but there is plenty of substance here, and the 33 percent new oak is not evident, boding well for the future. The finish is equally promising, with some excellent Meursault detail emerging.
Drink 2019-2024.
Adam Bruntlett, Burgundy Buyer

The Javilliers have been involved in the wine business for generations as courtiers. When Patrick started out in 1974 this was the main source of his income, alongside which he worked three hectares of vineyards. His courtier days are now long behind him, and his domaine covers nine hectares. Recently, Patrick has been joined by his daughter Marion and her brother-in-law Pierre- Emmanuel Lamy. Patrick is not far away from 50 vintages; Marion is now making the estate’s red wines, and Pierre-Emmanuel largely does the whites – not that Patrick is taking a back seat. As always, conversation with him is peppered with observations; indeed he has been closely involved in the discussions to create a new generic Côte d’Or appellation, a move that would appear to now just need a rubber stamp. There wasn’t too much frost damage here and harvesting began on 20th September; Patrick observes that the character of the vintage is one that can take a bit more bâtonnage than usual.