Philippe Chavy Meursault 2022

Philippe Chavy Meursault 2022

this is pretty much ready to drink now

It is immediately clear that this is a bigger and more powerful wine that possesses outstanding mid-palate density and a huge reserve of dry extract that imparts a seductive mouth feel and mostly buffers the exceptionally firm tannic spine on the massively long finish

licorice flavor

clean and elegant

but perhaps the ultimate example because the intense botrytis and unctuosity the wine possesses is buttressed by slightly more acidity

black-raspberry

particularly given that a '76 Giroud Suchots tasted side by side (see herein) was substantially better

gobs of glycerin

crystalline even with an exceptional detail

but flawless and with no edges

Here the wood and menthol influences are a good deal less subtle and while they don't dominate the even spicier and slightly riper liqueur-like cassis

This isn't quite as floral as the Amoureuses but it's even spicier with its purple fruit