Lucien Le Moine - Meursault "Porusot", Premier Cru

Meursault "Porusot", Premier Cru

Mounir likes to call Meursault “Porusot” the ambassador of Meursault – it takes from everything around it, Gouttes d’Or, Genevrieres, Charmes, and other vineyards, and shows a little bit of all their characters.  It is a wine that doesn’t rest, it keeps changing all the time.  Sweet yet flinty, as well as phenolic, it is an intellectual’s wine.  Mounir was delighted to bottle Porusot for the first time in 2009.  

  • 2009 Vintage

    There is more talk and interest about 2009 in Burgundy than in any vintage since 2005.  Mounir Saouma has warned us to be careful, however.  He loves this vintage, and in fact believes it is the greatest he has seen in his two decades in Burgundy.   He believes the fruit had everything from the start, and the wines from the beginning were healthy and beautifully balanced.  The major issue was to understand and respect the wines, and avoid working them, since they already had everything they needed in superb balance.  Overly working the wines, he believes, resulted in a loss of freshness and delicacy.

    2009 is the first vintage at Lucien Le Moine that Mounir did not do any lees stirring whatsoever, and as usual he never racked the wines in their nearly two years in barrel.  He didn’t add sulfur until a few months before bottling, and yet his wines are still completely fresh; some whites he describes as even having a tint of green.  The Lucien Le Moine 2009s across the board are beautifully pure and focused, with the exquisite harmony of truly great wines.

    • "An attractively layered nose of green fruit, pear and soft earth aromas leads to powerful, dense and palate coating medium weight plus flavors that offer plenty of dry extract that confers a textured mouth feel to the intense and beautifully persistent finish." 90-93 Points Burghound

    • "Aromas of mirabelle, minerals, clove oil and earth, with a suggestion of oyster shell.  Fat, rich and spicy but quite dry, with a lightly mentholated quality accentuated by the wine's alcohol.  Boasts a suave texture but this rather powerful wine is quite closed today." 90-93 Points Stephen Tanzer

    • "The 2009 Meursault Poruzots comes across as rather understated after the Charmes. It shows plenty of complexity but a slightly smaller-scaled personality. White flowers, pears and crushed rocks meld together beautifully on the long, perfumed finish. This is a relatively feminine, delicate style." 90-92 Points Wine Advocate