2001 Meursault

The maturity in 2001 came more from concentration of the grapes by wind than from sun, noted Morey, adding that the slight dehydration also reduced the volume of the grapes. The wines show a lot of smoky notes, and they are more marked by the vintage character than by their individual sites," he went on. The young wines are a bit youthfully tight today, almost like wines from a drought year." Morey added that the fermentations went slowly but well, and that the 2001s had finished a bit drier than the 2000s (despite the fact that fruit from old vines was typically higher in sugar than in 2000), which perhaps contributes to their impression of tightness. Still, he adds, "the 2001s are for drinking before the 2000s, as there less enveloping fat and less thoroughly ripe fruit flavor."