Meursault 1er Cru La Pièce sous le Bois, Prosper Maufoux 2022
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Why this wine
La Pièce sous le Bois is Meursault's highest and coolest Premier Cru, which is exactly why it holds its acidity in a hot year like 2022. Fourteen months in barrel supply the weight, the white marl supplies the salinity. This is the bottle to buy when a village Meursault is not quite enough.
At a glance
- Grape
- Chardonnay
- Region
- Burgundy, France
- Alcohol
- 13.00%
- Body
- Full
- Acidity
- High
- Sweetness
- Dry
- Drink
- Long (10-20 yrs)
- Pairs with
- Seafood, Poultry & Pork, Cheese
How it tastes
Flint, spice and toast over a core of ripe orchard fruit, leading into a creamy palate that finishes savoury and saline. Full-bodied and powerful, but strung together by real tension and high acidity rather than weight alone. Chardonnay 100%.
The producer
Maison Prosper Maufoux was founded in 1860 by a notary who gave up his practice to start a wine house, and since 2010 it has belonged to the Piffaut family, whose Burgundy roots run back more than two hundred years; they moved it to the Château de Saint-Aubin and its nine hectares in the heart of the Côte de Beaune. La Pièce sous le Bois lies in the Hameau de Blagny at 330 metres, the highest point in Meursault, on the Puligny-Montrachet border and on the edge of the woods; the two-hectare plot was planted in 1959 and again in 2010 on chalky white marl, and the basin it forms gives low yields with naturally high acidity. The estate is HVE Level 3 certified and is running soil geology research to measure the effect of its vineyard decisions. Hand-harvested fruit was pressed gently as whole bunches, settled at 12°C for a day, then fermented and put through malolactic conversion in barrel, spending fourteen months in lightly toasted blonde French oak of which 30% was new, with no racking. 2022 was hot, dry and early, and the grapes came in ripe and healthy.
Food and drinking
Serve at 12–14°C. Lobster, turbot in beurre blanc, roast veal, or a mature hard cheese. Worth another year or two in bottle, and it will hold for ten to twenty. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.