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Domaine des Terres de Velle, Les Luchets, Meursault, Vieille Vignes

Burgundy, France 2013 (750mL)
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Domaine des Terres de Velle, Les Luchets, Meursault, Vieille Vignes


The Les Luchets vineyard is nestled between celebrated lieu-dits, Les Vireuils and Les Meix Chavaux, on the prime mid-slope in the northern end of Meursault. This select site boasts over 75-year-old vines rooted in predominantly clay-limestone soils with ideal eastern exposure. The result is an incredibly concentrated, terroir-driven expression of Meursault that drinks way above its price point. Although husband and wife team, Fabrice and Sophie Laronze, are from Burgundy, they do not hail from a generations-old winemaking family like many of their neighbors. The couple forged their vigneron destiny with ample education, hard work, and experience, which includes tenures at Maison Alex Gambal as well as Domaine Lejeune. In 2009 they found a charmed estate to call home along the banks of the Velle River – hence the appropriate Domaine des Terres de Velle name. They approach their treasured vineyards with organic and biodynamic principles as well as common sense, which is abundantly evident in each glass.
 
Roughly 1300 bottles of their captivating Vieilles Vignes ‘Les Luchets’ is produced in only the best years from the treasured vines planted back in 1936. The wine is crafted according to Burgundian tradition and with ample care in the Domaine’s 19th-century mill-turned-winery, located at the entrance to the village of Auxey-Duresses. Following a gentle pneumatic press that lasts just over two hours, the juice settles in stainless steel overnight, then is transferred via gravity into 30% new French oak, where it ferments naturally and undergoes malolactic without the addition of yeasts. The wine’s fine lees are stirred as it ages for 15-18 months. It is then bottled with regard to the lunar calendar and without filtration, then rests for six months before release. The result is a rich, overachiever of a Meursault that is an absolute steal for the quality.
 
The 2014 Vieilles Vignes Les Luchets exhibits a light golden straw core with hints of green and gold on the rim. Classic aromas are creamy and soft with notes of freshly cut bosc pear, creamed yellow apple and salt-preserved lemon deepened by aromatics of hazelnut, stirred lees, white mushrooms, a touch of cream, acacia and hawthorn flowers, slight oyster shell and limestone minerality, as well as a kiss of exotic oak spices. After plenty of air, the palate rounds out into a rich and dense, creamy texture that has just the perfect touch of oiliness, beautifully lifted by a crisp freshness and the focused, quintessential Meursault minerality. To perform at its best, this wine craves a lot of air. Decant for one hour and serve at 55 degrees or just a touch warmer to experience the full aromatic display, texture and perfect expression of the famed village. Although this wine is spectacular right now, a whole other level of greatness it will offer in another 3-4 years is hard to fathom, but patience will be rewarded ten fold. We recommend enjoying a bottle now and putting some back for the long haul. For the ideal marriage of flavors, serve this beauty with lemon and thyme roasted chicken and enjoy.
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Country
France
Region
Burgundy
Sub-Region
FranceMeursault
Soil
Limestone and Clay
Farming
Organic
Blend
Chardonnay
Alcohol
12.5
OAK
Partial New French

France

Bourgogne

Beaujolais

Enjoying the greatest wines of Beaujolais starts, as it usually does, with the lay of the land. In Beaujolais, 10 localities have been given their own AOC (Appellation of Controlled Origin) designation. They are: Saint Amour; Juliénas; Chénas; Moulin-à Vent; Fleurie; Chiroubles; Morgon; Régnié; Côte de Brouilly; and Brouilly.

Southwestern France

Bordeaux

Bordeaux surrounds two rivers, the Dordogne and Garonne, which intersect north of the city of Bordeaux to form the Gironde Estuary, which empties into the Atlantic Ocean. The region is at the 45th parallel (California’s Napa Valley is at the38th), with a mild, Atlantic-influenced climate enabling the maturation of late-ripening varieties.

Central France

Loire Valley

The Loire is France’s longest river (634 miles), originating in the southerly Cévennes Mountains, flowing north towards Paris, then curving westward and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean near Nantes. The Loire and its tributaries cover a huge swath of central France, with most of the wine appellations on an east-west stretch at47 degrees north (the same latitude as Burgundy).

Northeastern France

Alsace

Alsace, in Northeastern France, is one of the most geologically diverse wine regions in the world, with vineyards running from the foothills of theVosges Mountains down to the Rhine River Valley below.

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