2020 Meursault Les Criots Ballot Millot

Lemon and lime colour. Here the nose is stricter than for the straight Meursault and all the finer for that. Seven rows have degenerated, the rest is in excellent condition on a limestone knoll. A light reductive tension is present but not insistent, though I pick up more on the palate. A little bacon fat shows the riper side, then good acidity. An interesting, idiosyncratic wine.

Slightly more elegant aromas are comprised by notes of various white orchard fruit scents, citrus and floral wisps. The chiseled and highly energetic flavors aren’t quite as dense but they’re finer with good minerality on the focused and sneaky long finale. This too is a very good Meursault villages.

From a ripe but rocky site, the 2020 Meursault Criots offers up aromas of sweet yellow orchard fruit, beeswax, dried white flowers, freshly baked bread and orange oil. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and racy, it's bright and concentrated, with attractive stony tension and cut to balance its more sun-kissed aromas and flavors.