Meursault 'Sous La Velle'
Meursault AOC · Côte de Beaune, France
- 100ml
- £31
- Bottle
- £265
A Coravin draws the wine through the cork under argon without opening the bottle. It lets us pour 100ml of wines we could not otherwise offer by the glass.
- Grape
- Chardonnay
- Vintage
- 2023
- Region
- Meursault, Burgundy
The short version
He owns no vineyards. He started in the late 1980s with a bank loan for his first barrels, and picks the harvest date himself.
'Sous La Velle' means under the village — the vines sit right against Meursault itself, averaging fifty years old.
The most expensive pour on the list, and the one people remember. Brioche, hazelnut and buttered toast.
How it tastes
Aroma & flavour
Sell it with
Monkfish, White Bean Cassoulet & Crispy Kale
Full malolactic in barrel plus eleven months of oak give a broad, creamy, nutty wine that matches richness rather than cutting it — and its brioche and hazelnut notes are the same browned, toasty family of flavours as the crust on the fish. Keep heavy smoke and spice away from it; this is the most delicate wine on the list despite being the richest.
Where to take them next
The detail — if they ask
Whole bunches pressed and gravity-fed into French oak, fermented on wild yeast, malolactic completed in the same barrels. Around 20% new oak, eleven months, then bottled in November unfined and unfiltered. Vines average fifty years old. The oak is a frame, not a flavour.
David Moret
- Producer
- A micro-négociant working from a small cellar in Beaune. He owns no vineyards — he struck out in the late 1980s with a bank loan for his first barrels, and buys from about eight growers. He sets the harvest dates himself and sorts every bunch.
- Region
- Meursault is the largest appellation in the Côte de Beaune, on limestone marls. 'Sous La Velle' means under the village — the vineyard sits right against Meursault itself, at about 200 metres on clay and gravel.
- Grapes
- Chardonnay's richest expression in the Côte de Beaune. The signature is almond and toasted hazelnut rather than tropical fruit, with the limestone keeping the line.
A named single vineyard at village level — more specific than a blended Meursault, without the premier cru price.