2002 Meursault Village

The 2002 white wines showed great flavors ever since the wines were pressed," managing director Bernard Hervet told me at the beginning of June. It's a vintage you can taste with pleasure at every level of quality; even the generic reds are very strong in 2002. Even the middle villages like Santenay and Maranges, which produce irregular quality from vintage to vintage, are very strong." The domain carried out a leaf-pulling during the second half of July, and yields in chardonnay were down 5 to 7 hectoliters per hectare from the previous year, with Meursault production even more sharply lower. According to winemaker Philippe Prost, the premier crus begin their elevage in about 20% to 25% new oak, but most of the wines were to have been racked into used barrels in mid-June.