Drink: Try from 2026+
Tasting note: A strikingly pure and still youthful, if no longer primary, nose reflects notes of mineral reduction, cool citrus and airy floral nuances on the mostly green apple and pear scents. There is excellent verve and cut to the medium-bodied flavors that brim with a bracing stoniness on the complex, focused, balanced and sneaky long finale. This is very classy juice that isn't quite yet at its peak though with that noted, it's not so far away that it couldn't be enjoyed now. In a word, excellent. Tasted multiple times recently with very consistent notes.
The 2011 Meursault 1er Cru Perrières is very much in the classic style of the domaine, opening in the glass with a bouquet of lemon zest, pear, white flowers, sesame and a generous framing of oak vanillin. On the palate, the wine is medium-full, saline and edgy, with taut acids, a vertical mid-palate and a searing, stony finish. Though this did fill out with several hours in the glass, it isn’t the most ample or ripe rendition of this bottling; but I’d describe it as lithe rather than lean, and I fully expect it to improve for a decade or more.
Drink Date: 2020 - 2040
WA: 94
