Meursault, Michel Gayot 2022
James Suckling 92 (2024)
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Why this wine
Village Meursault from a grower who keeps the winemaking deliberately quiet — wild yeasts, a fifth new oak, no heavy hand. It gives the nutty, creamy character people come to the name for, with the ripeness of a generous 2022 behind it.
At a glance
- Grape
- Chardonnay
- Region
- Burgundy, France
- Alcohol
- 13.00%
- Body
- Medium
- Acidity
- Medium
- Sweetness
- Dry
- Drink
- Medium (5-10 yrs)
- Pairs with
- Poultry & Pork, Seafood, Cheese
How it tastes
Toasted almond and hazelnut sit over a core of white orchard fruit, with a faint floral note behind. The texture is smooth and creamy, medium in weight, with enough acidity to keep the richness upright. Chardonnay 100%.
The producer
Michel Gayot grew up among the vines of a Burgundian family and came to wine by a roundabout route, studying management and working in the wine trade in France and abroad before acquiring this holding in the heart of Burgundy, which he farms alongside the family estate in Beaujolais. The vines lie on the clay-limestone slopes of the Côte d'Or escarpment at Meursault: the clay holds water through the growing season, the limestone gives the wine its mineral line. Fruit is picked by hand at full ripeness, settled cold for a day or two and fermented in part on wild yeasts, with malolactic conversion in French oak, then nine to twelve months in 228-litre barriques of which a fifth are new. The 2022 harvest came in mid-September after a temperate season with useful rain, and brought both quantity and ripeness after three short years.
Food and drinking
Serve at 11–13°C. Roast chicken, scallops in butter, veal in a cream sauce, or a well-aged Comté. Drinking well now and worth keeping five to ten years. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.