Domaine Bitouzet-Prieur Meursault 'Les Corbins' 2023

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Domaine Bitouzet-Prieur Meursault 'Les Corbins' 2023Southeast facing Les Corbins is located north of the village of Meursault on the way to Volnay, just underneath the premier cru Les Plures. Franois owns a hectare and a half of Chardonnay here, planted between 1974 and 1987; the soil is a particularly deep and rocky clay limestone mix. Aged 16 months in 20% new barrels, its a textbook Meursault, combining intense minerality with a subtle buttercream note, and plenty of acid driven tension as per the

producing wine for the first time in the 2021 vintage—a single 500-liter cask in which the wine spent 15 months following a natural fermentation in stainless steel

with a serene

Les Blaches

The vineyards are divided into several parcels located in the neighboring villages of Canneto Pavese and Castana

This wine is aged in barrel (about one-third new oak) and undergoes some batonnage

bottling it for the first time with the 2021 harvest and christening it “Rien Que du Carignan” (“Nothing But Carignan”)

The Tyler 2023 Santa Barbara County Chardonnay is a great wine for fans of Burgundian style Chardonnay

Pêcheur’s Trousseau nonetheless offers easy drinkability and effortless balance

the wine is moved to oak barrels for two years of aging

The 50-year-old vines are harvested together and co-fermented in stainless steel after a pre-fermentation cold soak

this wine allows the power of the appellation to shine through without leaning into

and the wine Guillaume coaxes from these astonishingly old vines is so powerful in its fruit that he gives it 12 months élevage instead of the 18 months he gives to his Cornas

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