2024, Maison Benjamin Leroux, MEURSAULT, 'Les Vireuils'The last vintage of purchased grapes here, because they have now bought the vineyard (0. 82ha). Pale lemon yellow. A little more body compared to the village Meursault, a raft of white limestone fruit, with good acidity to finish. Drink from 2028 2032. **** 90 92 Jasper Morris MW The 2024 Meursault Les Vireuils (which will be owned by Leroux from the 2025 vintage) has a taut and very minerally bouquet, more austere than the Village, focused with fine

producing excellent consistency

delivering beautiful richness with a sense of succulence that feels expansive on the palate

perhaps requiring a little more complexity on the powdery

75% Sauvignon Blanc with 25% Semillon this year

than growing wider with finely mouth-watering

The 2021 is harmonious with a mixture of red plum

and guess what

fruity with a lot of substance and a slight sweetness

These exciting and lively young wines represent the absolute pinnacle of the 2019 harvest

east facing

The palate is medium-bodied with svelte tannins that frame the mineral-rich black and red fruit

delivering a cooler blueberry and mint leaf exit that draws things out through the palate and opens things up for a smoky woodfire soot edge