This 2007 Meursault Les Terres Blanches certainly lives up to its name in overt chalkiness, which when taken in conjunction with rather angular acidity makes for a rather austere mouthful. But about its underlying concentration and sheer length there can be no argument, and the palate-staining, saliva-inducing combination of citrus, tart pit fruit skin, salt, and chalk one is left with is formidable indeed. I would give this some faith and some years in bottle, anticipating that it should be worth chewing over at least initially, in both sense of “chew” for a half dozen or more.
“For me, 2007 represents a compromise between 2004 and 1999,” says Pierre Morey, “though I suppose,” he adds, “there is a bit of 1996 in them. We picked some of our vineyards on the same day as we had in 2003, but what a difference!” He bottled his 2007s in late Spring, a few weeks after his negociant Morey-Blanc wines. (For reviews of the latter, consult the separate coverage in this report.)
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