2008 Meursault Rougeots

Coche describes 2009 as "a vintage of pleasure: perfumed, floral, sympathique, charming. And in red, it's even fuller and better. The whites are probably to drink over the next 15 years." He went on to compare his newest crop of white wines to attractive mid-term vintages like 1979 and 1982, maintaining that there was "no chance that the 2009s would close up after the bottling." He added that he did not stir the lees at all in 2009, as this technique would have been "pointless." Coche's 2008s, which I did not try last spring owing to the very late malos, have turned out to be serious wines indeed, with the top two cuvees among my favorites of this vintage. Incidentally, I had a quick look at the Coche-Dury 2009 reds (these wines are largely made by son Raphael), and was knocked out by the way they combine sappy cherry fruit and minerally soil tones.