Lucien Le Moine Meursault 1er Cru Les Perrières 2023 750ml

From Lucien Le Moine, the cult micro-négociant house based in Beaune, founded in 1999 by husband-and-wife team Mounir and Rotem Saouma. The name nods to Mounir's time studying winemaking at a Trappist monastery in Lebanon. The house buys grapes after fermentation from a carefully selected list of growers across the Côte d'Or, working from village level up to the most celebrated Premier and Grand Cru sites. Production is intentionally small, rarely exceeding 100 barrels in total each vintage, often only one barrel of each cuvée.

Les Perrières is widely regarded as Meursault's finest Premier Cru, often compared to Grand Cru white Burgundies for its precision and tension. The Chardonnay is taut and chiselled, with citrus zest, white peach, crushed stone and a fine, saline grip running through a long, mineral-driven finish.

Mounir's signature is an extended élevage on the lees with no racking, no fining and no filtration, in barrels that are typically 100% new oak from the Jupilles forest. Sulfur is added only minimally and late. The wines are bottled directly from barrel without blending, designed to express the place rather than the man.

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