Benjamin Leroux Meursault 1er Cru Genevrieres 2022

Description

If you’re not familiar with Leroux, he became the technical director of Comte Armand at 24, before which he enrolled in viticultural school at 15. In other words, the writing was on the wall. His style is polished, elegant, and vibrant. Despite rapidly trending toward ‘benchmark’ status amongst people who know what’s up, his wines still offer phenomenal value for the price.

Mid-slope, facing southeast, poor clay-limestone soils from a .12 ha parcel planted in 1959. Whole-cluster pressing, light settling if necessary, indigenous yeast fermentation. Aged for 12 months in 300L oak barrels (33% new), fined and/or filtered if necessary.