Went to a wine tasting this weekend in Oregon and Méo-Camuzet wines were available to purchase (from village to grand cru). I have no experience with Burgundy, mainly due to the overwhelming number of producers. The pricing was below W-S for nearly all bottlings. Are these high quality wines? We tried the Gevry-Chambertin village wine and were quite impressed.
I think the most relevant question is whether you like them. And since you tasted them, it seems you do like them!
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Fair enough. I was thinking of the longevity of the wines as well as if the grand cru bottlings were worth the extra $$$ relative to the 1er and village bottlings.
The Meo wines are very well regarded and the domaine has ties to Henri Jayer. Jayer farmed and produced wine from some of the estate’s vines and Jayer was a mentor to Jean Nicolas Meo. As others have said, though, focus on what you like. But it is nice knowing the wines are prized among collectors too.
I’m going to guess you tasted the wines at Nicolas Jay. That estate in Oregon is a join collaboration involving Jean Nicolas Meo of Meo Camuzet.
Jean Nicolas Meo was by far the most generous host at his domain when I first got into burgundy. Generous with wine and time, a real classy guy.
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The Cros P is good.
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I thought this was a well-known producer. I’m surprised there aren’t more than 2 opinions on this board.
Meo-Camuzet wines are very good, tending to the richer, more hedonistic whole bunch style in my experience.
They have become rather scarce in our market and the Richebourg and Cros P are just about unicorns. The Cortons, Nuits Boudots, Vosne Chaumes and Fixin are all very good. Had an excellent MSD Negoce wine recently and used to drink a bit of the Clos St Philibert Blanc but I don’t even get that offered any more.
The few bottles that I have left in my cellar are only opened on specialish occasions such is there scarcity in our market now.
Their Clos Vougeot is one of the better ones.
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Jayer was famous for always destemming his grapes, Méo-Camuzet continues this approach as a principle, but will step away from it ocasionally when he feels adding some stems can improve acuvée, eg, adding some freshness or reducing alc level.
We just poured the 2017 Clos Vougeot and unfortunately it was a soupy mess of a wine. Over extracted and over oaked.
I stand corrected. My experience was with 96, 02, and 07. Not sure if there was a stylistic change.
Odd the the CV should be the outlier in this thread, I thought his holdings were good.
Sorry I didn’t mean to imply that the CV is bad in every vintage, but more to report on recent experience. You are correct Meo owns plots in multiple locations in the vineyard, top middle and bottom. Traditionally it’s been a great wine, but my a couple of recent Meos including this CV have been very 4 square with blue fruit and too oaky for my palate. I prefer brighter red fruited wines with a whole cluster element to them.
To continue the drift, I have always loved their version of NSG Boudots as that wine is on the border of Vosne and the Meo holdings are well sited.
I opened an '02 CV last fall, and it was gorgeous. Have an '06 Boudots on deck that I’ll get around to one of these days.
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Meo has a polarizing style, I’m not a huge fan, although cros p and riche aren’t bad.
“Classy” is the right word. Jean Nicholas’s father, Jean, inherited land from a Lamarche-Confuron and later from a Camuzet. Jean was in Charles de Gaulle’s cabinet, was a fundraiser for French President Valerie D’Estaing and, though his political ties, was made a director of Elf Petroleum and headed the Havas advertising agency. Peasant farmers they were not.
I’ve only had one (2001 Aux Brulees) and it was very bizarre. Matchstick reduction like white Burgundy, which I have never, ever, experienced in a red wine.
For those that drink a lot of this producer, is reduction to this extent common?
I know there was an overlap with Jayer at Meo but I don’t look at modern Meo wines as carrying the banner of Jayer. If that’s what you are looking for buy Rouget.
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I’m looking for an occasion to open 1988 Richebourg. (I don’t generally swim in those waters, and am excited by H. Jayer link.) Advice? Give me a push!