2016 Meursault Genevrieres Cuvee des Pierres
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(four barrels produced--one new, two once-used and one twice-used): Bright yellow. Alluring perfume of ripe peach, hazelnut and brown spices. Savory, utterly refined wine; at once ripe and dry, offering a lovely balance of salinity and concentrated stone fruit flavors. Currently more reserved than the Genevrières cuvée classique , finishing salty and backward but without any hard edges. This is an outstanding expression of soil with lovely citrus energy and superb longer-term potential. Tight and taut, as it should be in a good vintage. Saturates the palate and builds slowly and inexorably on the back end. This wine has historically been made from Latour's oldest parcel in Genevrières. He has done a bit of recent replanting and thus the source of this special bottling is in the process of shifting, but he told me that the wine will "always be from 50+-year-old vines in the same band of soil."
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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(Latour made four barrels, vs. a normal three): Medium bright yellow. Deep aromas of musky peach, mirabelle , menthol and flint; there's something a bit sauvage here in a positive way. Dense, plush and sweet, displaying huge fruit in the context of the vintage. Pineapple, ripe peach and spice flavors are nicely framed by lively integrated acidity (actually a bit higher than the cuvée classique , which has 4.8 grams per liter) and buffered by dry extract. Finishes spicy and very long, with an impression of reserve. This youthfully laid-back wine still needs more élevage and should evolve slowly in bottle. Latour says it's "at point zero today, between oxidation and reduction," adding that the Puligny is "floral and joyous while this wine is more upright and rigorous but not austere."