Lafouge, Jean et Gilles 2022 Meursault "Casse Tetes"

The lieu-dit "Les Casses Têtes" is located on the hillside above the premier cru Les Gouttes d'Or and next to Le Tesson. The soils are thin and rocky producing wines of great energy and lift. The 2022 Lafouge is a very pale gold color with aromas of wet stone, pear, fresh herbs and lemon peel with hints of oak. The palate is crystalline and vibrant with stony acidity and flavors of marcona almonds, bitter lemon, dried pear and saline minerals. This is a beautifully structured Meursault to drink now in its rather intense youth with crab, broiled sole, flounder and cod, or cellar for ten to fifteen years or more. ("At Meursault, this top-slope lieu-dit bears an evocative name. We suppose they had to break the outcropping "tetes de roche" or rock-heads to clear and farm the site...they called "rock head" the top part of a rock that showed on the surface.) - The Climats and Lieux-dits of the Great vineyards of Burgundy