Meursault 2023, Domaine Joseph Pascal

£59.95 per bottle

ABV 14.0%

Chardonnay (100%)

Tasting Notes
A rich and powerful wine from the village of Meursault. Fleshy stone fruit combines with notes of melted butter and toast imparted from 11 months ageing in French oak barrels, 25% new. Fresh acidity and a flinty mineral character from the limestone soils balances the rich character and creamy texture, finishing long and complex.

Food
Serve with rich dishes such as chicken in a cream sauce or lobster.

Region
Côte d’Or stretches from Dijon in the north to Santenay in the south, via Beaune. The wines produced here are more complex, more expensive and more lasting than elsewhere in Burgundy. They come from famous villages such as Vosne Romanee, Pommard, Volnay, Meursault and Puligny Montrachet. The region is divided into two parts, Côte de Nuits to the north and Cote de Beaune to the south. The first produces almost exclusively red wines, the second both red and whites. Cote d’Or takes its name from the Orient; the vines face east to make the most of limited sunlight.

Producer
The Domaine was founded in 1920 in Puligny-Montrachet and is now owned by Jean-Luc Pascal. It comprises 14 hectares of vineyards across four communes of Cote de Beaune, Auxey Duresses, Meursault, Volnay and Puligny-Montrachet. This small family domaine on the outskirts of the village of Puligny embodies meticulous traditional winemaking with minimal use of oak. In the early 2000s, Jean Luc`s son, Yann and his wife Alexandra arrived on the estate and have now taken over the production. Yann works in the vineyards and Alexandra is the winemaker. It has remained a very small family business and they continue to make very high quality wines from the Cote de Beaune.