Domaine Roulot Meursault Les Meix Chavaux 2011 SPS21 and exposure influence each vineyard

and exposure influence each vineyard

This is the vieilles vignes bottling

dry-farmed vineyard in Yamhill-Carlton originally planted by Kevin Chambers in 1981

and the cellar work behind it is deliberately old-school: spontaneous fermentation in concrete

Domaine Roulot Meursault Les Meix Chavaux 2011 SPS21 and exposure influence each vineyardMeix Chavaux is one of the lieux dits that built Roulot's reputation a village level parcel that Guy Roulot was among the first to bottle separately, decades before single vineyard Meursault became a category. This is the 2011, now fourteen years from harvest, drinking with the kind of patina that only mature Meursault delivers: yellow fruit deepening toward honey, citrus turning to lime peel, the texture broadening but the line of acid still tight. A