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MEURSAULT Les Tillets DOMAINE PATRICK JAVILLIER 2002

From a producer rated to be one of the best on the Côtes de Baune, this is a cracking Meursault, showing all the weight and complexity one would expect, with some striking and uplifing finesse to give a long and complex finish. Great value for a Meursault of this quality.

VINEYARD
The Javillier family has been in Meursault for centuries, and has always owned parcels of vines. Raymond Javillier was the first generation to work exclusively as a vigneron, however. After returning from the war in 1945, he revived the family estate, expanded his vineyard holdings and also established a negociant business to run alongside the family domaine. Patrick, Raymond's son, studied oenology in Dijon before taking over responsibility for the estate with the 1974 harvest

The Les Tillets vineyard comprises 1.5 hectares of vines between 30 and 70 years old, on clay limestone soils. Stylistically, this wine has a little of both Meursault and Puligny Montrachet.

GRAPE VARIETIES
100% Chardonnay

VINIFICATION
Javillier vinifies all his lieux dits separately, allowing them to develop their own characteristics and express their own unique terroir. The whites are fermented 100% in barrel, 25% new, where they stay for 11 months before being assembled and matured again in larger vats for 6 months on their lees. Patrick feels strongly that this extended lees contact enriches the personalities of the wines. So the wines are bottled 18 months after harvest, usually without filtration.

TASTING NOTE
A very elegant and entcing wine, the 2002 Les Tillets has a fine, fragrant lime blossom nose, a note of toast on the palate, from bottle age. A full palate of citrus and topicals fruits culiminate in a long savoury finish.

Per Bottle £29.49

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