Meursault Perrieres 2007 Coche Dury

Professional reviews

Robert Parker (94)

Coche’s 2007 Meursault Perrieres represents a leap in concentration and in diversity of mineral characteristics. Chalk, wet stone, and brine are already intimated in the nose, along with musk, narcissus, orange blossom, toasted nuts and citrus zest. On the subtly creamy palate, this diversity of mineral notes harmonizes vibrantly with floral, citric, and pit fruit flavors. Like a luscious peach close to the pit, and with chalk and salt allied to cyanic bitterness at its core, this finishes with a striking combination of pithy piquancy, minerality, and refreshment. It should be worth following for a dozen or more years. Jean-Francois Coche finished his 2007 Chardonnay harvest by mid-September, and of his whites were bottled in April. He characterizes the fruit as having been healthy, relatively high in malic acid, and easy to vinify, with alcohol levels (after very light but at this address routine chaptalization) between 12.5% and 13%. Coche is among many growers to not only draw the comparison with 2004, but to claim that this represents the only possible point of reference that even occurs to him. That said, he considers the 2007s slightly fruitier and more forward.