The 2007 Meursault Chevalieres represents the single largest appellation of his estate (in five parcels), thus permitting Monnot to separately vinify three lots before assembling them in an effort to achieve greater complexity. A rather reticent nose of lemon with alkaline overtones leads to a palate of contrasting intensity: briny and piquant, with fruit pit and tasted nut bitterness. The effect of lees-beating is evident in this wine’s plush of texture and it finishes with breadth and slightly yeasty as well as nutty and citrus cream persistence, a faintly hard alkaline note and whiff of toasted oak hanging close beside. I suspect this will be best enjoyed over the next 3-4 years.
Young Xavier Monnot – for some further notes on whom, consult issues 170 and 180 – bottled his vintage 2007 whites largely in November, 2008, and a few at 11 months. They all came in between 12.25 and 13% natural alcohol, but he did roughly a third to a half of a percent capitalization for the sake of prolonging and thus in his view improving the fermentations. They were not very charming when I tasted – 8-10 months after bottling – so I can only hope that this was a stage.
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