2007 Meursault Les Chevalières Jean-Philippe Fichet
Producer: Domaine Jean-Philippe Fichet
Vintage: 2007
Type: White
Grape varieties: Chardonnay
Drinking dates: 2009 - 2018
Tasting Notes
- Goedhuis, January 2009
- The Chevalières vineyard has the most limestone of all Jean-Philippe's Meursault vineyards. This limestone added extra focus and purity in 2007. Soft yet with impressive concentration, the 2007 Chevalières offers aromatic juicy peach, yellow plum with a touch of smoke and toasted hazelnut.
- Jancis Robinson, January 2009, Score: 17
- Very creamy and pure lemon aromas. Lovely depth and breadth on the palate but kept in shape by fine acid outline and purity of fruit. Marked intensity.
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Domaine Jean-Philippe Fichet
A meticulous vigneron, Jean-Philippe's cellar was built in 2000 using stones from an old demolished farm house in Auxey Duresses. The ceilings were lined with Douglas fir, a deterrent against any insect invasion, and then covered in linseed oil, a non-intervening wood preservative that emanates wafts of clean, wood aromas reminiscent of cricket bats. Two chais lie at the core of his cellar - one to kick off fermentations and a cooler room to clarify the wine gently, preserving all of the natural fruit. A special 3-tier filtration system removes any chlorine, trace minerals and bacteria from the water before it is used in the winery. His painstaking attention to detail is demonstrated in his wines, which are pure and seamless. Each and every year, his wines seem to become more and more refined, concentrated and pure. This is no doubt due to his relentless reflection on how he can do better. Though most of his wines are only lieux dits, they could easily be mistaken for premier crus.
Chardonnay
Undoubtedly the world's most popular white wine grape, Chardonnay is most famous for creating the majority of white Burgundies. It is known for taking on the personality of the climate and soil as well as the style in which it is made. This versatility enables it to wear many masks including still wines from all over the world to sparkling wines in Champagne. It creates crisp, clean, mineral-driven wines in Chablis, exemplary, sumptuous wines in the Cote de Beaune, and palate-filling fruit-bombs, both oaked and otherwise, throughout the New World.
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