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Benjamin Leroux Meursault Les Vireuils 2020

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Benjamin Leroux Meursault Les Vireuils 2020
Producer Benjamin Leroux
Region, Country Meursault, France
Bottle Size 750ml
Product Code 20981-750

This is a high-grown wine of wonderful purity and mineral drive. Leroux has been making this wine from the same 0.45 hectares of vines since 2002 (pre-2007, he made it at Comte Armand). This is from three parcels in Vireuils Dessus—one of the higher sites of Meursault—which sits above the renowned Les Chevalières and Rougeots lieux-dits in one of the best parts of Meursault for villages level. Vireuils is an east-facing, late-ripening site, with pure, rocky, limestone and flint soils and vines around 45 years of age. This cooler terroir is picked a good week after the village wine. Aging took place in older 300-litre barrels. 

Benjamin Leroux Meursault Les Vireuils 2020

Reviews

“Upper part. Pale in colour with a light lime tint, racy fresh hillside nose. Lime notes infuse the white fruit at the finish, and then just enough flesh when you think this is maybe going to be too strict. Fineboned and racy.” 91-93 points
Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy
“Pronounced aromas of green apple and lime peel. There is plenty of acidity, but more than that there is a lovely silky character as well. Leroux describes the parcel in Meursault Vireuils as 'limestone on limestone', noting that there are many limestone pebbles in the thin soils here. Even in 2020, the grapes were picked at a moderate 13% alcohol, and fermentation in used casks did nothing to hide the purity of the fruit.”
93 points, Charles Curtis MW, Decanter

Reviews

“Upper part. Pale in colour with a light lime tint, racy fresh hillside nose. Lime notes infuse the white fruit at the finish, and then just enough flesh when you think this is maybe going to be too strict. Fineboned and racy.” 91-93 points
Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy
“Pronounced aromas of green apple and lime peel. There is plenty of acidity, but more than that there is a lovely silky character as well. Leroux describes the parcel in Meursault Vireuils as 'limestone on limestone', noting that there are many limestone pebbles in the thin soils here. Even in 2020, the grapes were picked at a moderate 13% alcohol, and fermentation in used casks did nothing to hide the purity of the fruit.”
93 points, Charles Curtis MW, Decanter

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