Lightly roasted coffee and toasted nuts mingle with peach, brown spices, and a hint of vanillin from barrel in the nose of Latour-Giraud 2007 Meursault Les Boucheres. This hits some of the deepest notes and exhibits the closest I have tasted to roasted richness from its vintage. At the same time, it harbors more than enough fresh citrus to lend a sense of brightness and vivacity to its lingering finish, whose salinity calls forth a generous flow of saliva. I’d plan to enjoy this over the next 5-7 years although I can only wonder about how much longer it might last.
Jean-Pierre Latour is having none of the claim that 2007 and 2004 are similar. “2004 is about minerality, whereas 2007 is a lively vintage of fruit,” he insists, “but that didn’t become apparent until well along in the elevage. Because it was so cold over the winter,” he continues, “the wines precipitated a lot of tartaric acid, after which the malos came normally” (unlike in 2006 here) in early Spring. Latour reports healthy lees which he was happy to retain and stir to lend the wines textural richness. As a group, I found these more charming, refined, fun to drink, as well as nuanced than the 2006 collection, but white Burgundy lovers who in general preferred 2006 as a vintage should by all means check out Latour’s unusually broad, rich, and texturally pliable 2007s.
Various importers, including Bayfield Importing, Long Island, NY (718)482 0200; Classic Wine Imports, Norwood, MA, tel. (781) 352 1100; and Stacole Fine Wines, Boca Raton, FL; tel. (561) 998 0029
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