TN: 2007 Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Meursault 1er Cru Charmes

  • 2007 Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Meursault 1er Cru Charmes - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault 1er Cru (13/04/2016)
    Reached into my vertical case of this wine (07-12) and grabbed the 07 thinking it would be ready for business. Double decanted back into the bottle and enjoyed a glass over the evening in a riedel sommelier montrachet glass.

Quite a young, light gold colour. Nose was a bit subdued. The palate was very tight, even hard. All kinds of granite and sour lemons. Very tough at this stage and a real surprise that it was showing so young. Indeed, the first white burg of this age I can recall in a long time that was absolutely not ready to play. No question that it will get there with time. It will be interesting to see what kind of development there is tonight after 24 hours of air.

2nd night. Only marginally more friendly. Absolutely at the linear, austere end and very unwilling to come out and play. Imagine a grivot richebourg or old school faiveley at about the same age to get an impression of how closed this was! Unclear whether it’s the bottle or the wine as I’ve not had it before in this vintage. First time I can recall being disappointed with a PYCM.

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This wine is usually gorgeous Dan. Sounds pretty stern. Thanks for the note.

Does sound tight. I’ve had out of mag twice in the past 6 months, and both times it’s been great–almost surprisingly approachable- with a little air.

This is actually encouraging to me. I think we’ve gotten so used to our white burgs aging prematurely that it’s surprising to find that an 8 year old wine from a good producer and terroir is tight. From everything I’ve heard PYCM takes premox seriously and made changes to ensure his wines will not suffer. I’m buying his wines with confidence now, and have yet to taste a premoxed bottle.

Sounds flawed -maybe corked but not tithe point where you can taste it, just stripped of what should be there.

I recently had a 750 ml and it was superb. Bottle variation? Storage or shipping issues prior to your cellaring?

Very much doubt storage issues as this came from the uk importer just a month ago. There was absolutely no sign of any tca. I’m doing a horizontal of the 07s next week with Pierre-Yves so should be a good opportunity to see how much of an outlier this was.