TN: 2011 Domaine Matrot Meursault 1er Cru Charmes

Jeremy_Holmes · January 24, 2019, 10:29pm

2011 Domaine Matrot Meursault 1er Cru Charmes - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault 1er Cru (1/21/2019)
Just taking on a hint of toasty development but still a vital and energetic wine. There are cooler notes of slate and Arum lily. It has pure white peach fruit and a suggestion of rockmelon. It is rich but also compact, with a strong line of minerally acidity and plenty of chalky dry extract to the back-end.

Jerry_Hey · January 24, 2019, 10:49pm

Good to hear the premox bug hasn’t’t hit these yet. It has been notorious in earlier vintages for being gone even after a few years, certainly less than 7 like yours.

alan_weinberg · January 24, 2019, 11:41pm

Jeremy is brave. Matrot is off my list.

William_Kelley · January 25, 2019, 12:33am

They are aware of the issue. Now they’re bottling by gravity, paying more attention to dissolved oxygen and monitoring sulfur levels more closely. That is at least encouraging.

alan_weinberg · January 25, 2019, 12:44am

nice to know—it was a cheap source of MP when young—they need to switch to Diam or screwcaps, too.

B_Buzzini · January 25, 2019, 12:54am

Just had a 14 Matrot Meursault village in screw cap. The wine was meh…tropical, racy acidity, and simple.

James_Billy · January 25, 2019, 1:02am

Hope you’re not blaming the screwcaps for those flavors. Most new world Chardonnays outside of the states are under screwcap.

B_Buzzini · January 25, 2019, 1:32am

Not at all! I’m a proponent for screw cap…it was just not up to “Meursault” standards for me.

Btw…this was a 14 Matrot Meursault.

Jerry_Hey · January 25, 2019, 2:34am

+1

James_Billy · January 25, 2019, 8:24am

Thanks. Good to hear that. I assumed that by referencing screw caps in a negative tasting note you were making a cause and effect statement .

1+1=25

Jeremy, did your wine have a screw cap? If so, maybe that was why it’s still alive. How many bottles do you have left? If many, maybe you could start a new thread about WB and SCs (or just use this thread) and report on your remaining bottles. It’d be interesting to see if you can consume a case of WB over an extended period without seeing the pox, especially for a producer with such a bad track record as Matrot.

I acknowledge that, as has been mentioned above, that they have changed their winemaking to try to tackle this issue, so SCs can’t take all the credit if the pox is eliminated.

Conversely if WB under SC still gets poxed, maybe SCs aren’t the magic bullet after all

James_Billy · January 25, 2019, 8:25am

I have no WB under SC

William_Kelley · January 25, 2019, 1:40pm

You are counting your chickens. They don’t bottle the Charmes under screw cap, at least AFAIK - just some Meursault and some of the regional appellations.

James_Billy · January 25, 2019, 1:53pm

That’s a petty, although Jeremy is in Australia, so there is always a chance that they get special bottlings under SC.

Al_Osterheld · January 25, 2019, 4:25pm

Matrot is also off my list for older bottles or aging. A local supermarket had some 2010s and 2011s at decent prices about five years ago. They were showing well so I just bought them and drank them (a bottle at a time).

-Al

Jeremy_Holmes · January 25, 2019, 8:46pm

It was under cork James.

I have had a fair bit of Jean-Claude Boiset and Benjamin Leroux under screwcap. Never had an oxidised one. Had a humble2007 Jean-Claude Boisset Savigny-Les-Beaune Blanc under screwcap last year. A splendid drink, developing properly but fresh as a daisy. Never had an oxidised white full stop under screwcap.

Cheers
Jeremy

James_Billy · January 25, 2019, 9:19pm

Fantastic data points, Jeremy.

Is anyone taking notice or are people just not prepared to accept SCs as a possible solution to the pox? If so, why not?