Description
Benjamin Leroux ‘Les Vireuils’ Meursault 2019
- Size: 0.45 ha (1.11 ac)
- Variety: Chardonnay
- Vine Age: Planted in the mid-1970s
- Terroir: High altitude, just below the forest at top of hill, facing east/southeast, terres blanches, meaning “white soils” abundant limestone
- Viticulture: Lutte raisonnée
- Vinification: Whole-cluster pressing, light settling before transfer to 300L barrels (15% new oak), indigenous yeast fermentation. Aged for 18 months, fined and/or filtered only if necessary.
- Meursault Les Vireuils offers more complexity on the nose compared to the Village Cru, offering pressed yellow flowers intermixed with beeswax and honeysuckle aromas. The palate is well balanced with better acidity than the Meursault Village and offers a welcome touch of salinity on the tensile finish. This comes recommended and should age well for a decade.
- If you’re not familiar with Leroux, he became the technical director of Comte Armand at 24, before which he enrolled in viticultural school at 15. In other words, the writing was on the wall. His style is polished, elegant, and vibrant. Despite rapidly trending toward ‘benchmark’ status amongst people who know what’s up, his wines still offer phenomenal value for the price.
