Bernard Boisson-Vadot Les Grands Charrons Meursault Chardonnay 2014

Domaine Boisson-Vadot is one of the fine, outstanding small producers in the village of Meursault that are not particularly well known beyond their native France yet produce stellar examples of Meursault. The estate is currently run by the father and son team of Bernard and Pierre Boisson, who turn out between three and four thousand cases of wine per year. Pierre is now in his late-twenties and slowly beginning to take over more and more of the decision making in the cellars for the family estate in addition to making a few wines on his own as well from vineyard holdings on his maternal grandmother's side of the family. Pierre Boisson is an old, school-age friend with Raphael Coche, son of Jean-Francois Coche of Domaine Coche-Dury, and the two often discuss winemaking and viticultural philosophies. The domaine also makes three distinct village wine bottlings, from three of the best lieux a dits in Meursault: Sous la Velle (under Anne Boisson); Grands Charrons (planted in 1988) and Chevalieres (planted in 1982). The Grands Charrons bottling is the nuttier of the three ('the most Meursault-y' says Bernard), with notes of apple and peach coupled to toasty hazelnut tones and a bit of iodine in its soil component.

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