Benjamin Leroux Meursault 1er Cru Les Genevrières 2021

Benjamin Leroux Meursault 1er Cru Les Genevrières blends old-vine parcels from the lower part of the vineyard with biodynamically farmed estate vines up near Perrières.

Genevrières is one of the trio of great Meursault Premiers Crus alongside Perrières and Charmes, and it tends to sit between the two in style: less austere than Perrières, more tightly drawn than Charmes. Leroux has released only one Genevrières bottling this year rather than splitting the sections. It combines two old-vine parcels on the gravelly limestone of the lower part of the vineyard with 0.12 hectares of estate vines in the higher dessus section. Those 60-year-old vines lie close to Perrières, on soils full of hard Bathonian limestone, and have been farmed biodynamically since 2014. The wine is bottled under Diam.

Give it three to five years and drink over the following decade; serve at 10-12°C with grilled john dory, roast chicken or a gruyère tart.

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