2001 Meursault Rougeots
France
Meursault
Burgundy
White
Chardonnay
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This wine was tasted during La Paulée in NYC, 2009.
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Coche rarely makes strong claims early for a new vintage, but allowed that the 2002s hold out considerable promise. This time, the malolactic fermentations were for the most part finished when I tasted in early June. During my tasting with Coche, I mentioned that his 1990 Meursault Perrieres was a consistently spectacular white Burgundy, just now embarking on its plane of peak drinkability. He agreed, and offered the opinion that it's a better wine than his 1990 Corton-Charlemagne, which he feels he picked a bit later than ideal.
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Coche did even more stirring of the lees of his 2001s than he did the previous year, and maintained that the lees were essentially clean. He describes the new set of wines as fatter than the 2000s, with the same acidity as the earlier vintage. The 2000s, though, show more finesse. Interestingly, these comments roughly track Dominique Lafon take on these two years: the 2001 richer and fatter, the 2000s finer. A couple of Coche 2001 cuvees had not yet completed their malolactic fermentations, but most of the wines were finished, and as a group they were showing well at the end of May.