Meursault 1er cru les Caillerets

This parcel we’re farming comes from the family. It is about 40 years old.
Our yields don’t exceed 30 hl to the hectare which makes our annual production be about 300 bottles. The grape variety is 100% Pinot Noir. The vineyards are managed using non-certified organic methods.

The sub-soil is made of calcareous stones laid on a fissured-plate bearing rock.

The cuvée is vinified in a small wooden vat for about 15-17 days then put into an oak barrel where it remains for a minimum of 12 months.
We use a barrel of one wine.

The nose varies between crushed fruits and a soup of red fruits. The retro-olfaction reveals all the wine potential: black pepper, wild raspberries, brown tobacco, liquorice … and steers you to a straight-forward and intense finish where along with the fruitiness you taste the terroir minerality.
The family tradition is to drink it while eating pigeon.

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Raphael GIMENEZ-FAUVETY ‘s tasting notes – Retailer ; “De Corps et d’Esprit” in Paris

Here is one that had become more than rare since the flow of 2010, even absent, and which has marked its great return since the 2017 vintage, I confess that I missed it since I have a special friendship for it as for its neighbour in the Volnay soil. The nose first presents itself with a complex plant landscape where one can distinguish deciduous trees, moss, ferns, tree bark from a forest not so far away. Fruits and flowers soon show up, cherry, carnations, damsons and stone, violet (from Volnay), churned up earth, coffee cream, cappuccino, a refreshing note of rhubarb. On the palate, brown, red and black stewed fruits, the same note of rhubarb, very supple tannins, plum and raspberry, a poetic atmosphere with a general tenderness then, the finish takes you far, far away, the wine gradually built up in the mouth, a discreet, delicate entry and, constantly rising, the fantastic persistence tells the future of this bottle of great finesse.

Raphael GIMENEZ-FAUVETY ‘s tasting notes – Retailer ; “De Corps et d’Esprit” in Paris

Close relative of the previous one, subtlety, harmony and exemplary elegance. Earth, complex chocolate-chocolate truffle, flowers, peony, roses in full bloom, tulip, a touch of currant. A silky-tinged palate, red and black fruits, gooseberry, cherry and blackberry, fruit jelly, sophisticated earthiness, bark, bay, eucalyptus, ginger, sage. The finish in perfect harmony, greatly refined, a class act.

Raphael GIMENEZ-FAUVETY ‘s tasting notes – Retailer ; “De Corps et d’Esprit” in Paris

The Caillerets make a remarkable comeback, a very large bottle in perspective. With depth, intense presence of the soil, in terms of the aromatic palette, the Caillerets can be likened to the Santenots with raspberry straw, a cherry coulis, soft spices, mainly cinnamon, redcurrant and red fruit jelly, flowers with red roses and peonies, very fresh white flowers then ……….. earth, a flower bulb, complex and refined, precious wood, standard for very great wines, charm, strength, perfect balance, a great bottle, no doubt about it.

Raphael GIMENEZ-FAUVETY ‘s tasting notes – Retailer ; “De Corps et d’Esprit” in Paris

The nose varies between fruit compote and a soup of red fruits. Chocolate, peony and raspberry, a precious and perceptible note of wood, between mahogany and rosewood. I find (and maybe it’s only me) a touch of dried currants, then blackberry and raspberry jelly, lots of charm emanates from the glass. The palate is as hydrating as water, cherry pit followed by fruit compote (again). The retro-olfaction unveils the wine’s full potential, black pepper, wild raspberry, brown tobacco, licorice, and leads you toward a direct and intense finish where the terroir’s minerality comes through, without the fruit ever leaving. It’s truly long.

Nose of blood, earth, matchstick, tree-beech-birch wood, with prolonged aeration a meaty note close to veal tripe, red fruits also with a small note of blackcurrant, sandalwood, a sensation that the wine is colder than it really is, as the freshness of the aromas imposes itself. On the palette, currant and raspberry jellies, blood orange marmalade, invading with perfectly ripe tannins. 94+

Floral and mineral nose with a great complexity. Mixed chocolates, purée of flowers, linear but without the slightest austerity. One is blown away by the harmony and the class given off by the wine. Fruity and energetic palette, cherry, fruit pit, a directness and a magnificent tension on the finish, very nice work.

Pastry, floral, a certain sweetness that, curiously, makes it resemble classic Santenots. It’s as if the two wines played musical chairs, raspberry and strawberry jam, blackberry and blackcurrant jelly, much more charming, feminine, and seductive than expected, distilled Burgundy fruits. The wine is in evolution, today there is plenty of fruit, of juice, of liveliness that will progress over the next five years, there is a naturalness in the retro-olfaction that gives proof to this, the finish is as savory as for a white wine, intense, with an uncompromising structure, great wine of tomorrow.

The MEURSAULT CAILLERETS is superb. Refined, floral, elegant, lots of juiciness on the palette with beautiful ripeness. Linear, precise, superb.

2018: Raphael GIMENEZ-FAUVETY ‘s tasting notes – Retailer ; “De Corps et d’Esprit” in Paris

Here is one that had become more than rare since the flow of 2010, even absent, and which has marked its great return since the 2017 vintage, I confess that I missed it since I have a special friendship for it as for its neighbour in the Volnay soil. The nose first presents itself with a complex plant landscape where one can distinguish deciduous trees, moss, ferns, tree bark from a forest not so far away. Fruits and flowers soon show up, cherry, carnations, damsons and stone, violet (from Volnay), churned up earth, coffee cream, cappuccino, a refreshing note of rhubarb. On the palate, brown, red and black stewed fruits, the same note of rhubarb, very supple tannins, plum and raspberry, a poetic atmosphere with a general tenderness then, the finish takes you far, far away, the wine gradually built up in the mouth, a discreet, delicate entry and, constantly rising, the fantastic persistence tells the future of this bottle of great finesse.
2016: Raphael GIMENEZ-FAUVETY ‘s tasting notes – Retailer ; “De Corps et d’Esprit” in Paris

Close relative of the previous one, subtlety, harmony and exemplary elegance. Earth, complex chocolate-chocolate truffle, flowers, peony, roses in full bloom, tulip, a touch of currant. A silky-tinged palate, red and black fruits, gooseberry, cherry and blackberry, fruit jelly, sophisticated earthiness, bark, bay, eucalyptus, ginger, sage. The finish in perfect harmony, greatly refined, a class act.
2015: Raphael GIMENEZ-FAUVETY ‘s tasting notes – Retailer ; “De Corps et d’Esprit” in Paris

The Caillerets make a remarkable comeback, a very large bottle in perspective. With depth, intense presence of the soil, in terms of the aromatic palette, the Caillerets can be likened to the Santenots with raspberry straw, a cherry coulis, soft spices, mainly cinnamon, redcurrant and red fruit jelly, flowers with red roses and peonies, very fresh white flowers then ……….. earth, a flower bulb, complex and refined, precious wood, standard for very great wines, charm, strength, perfect balance, a great bottle, no doubt about it.
2011: Raphael GIMENEZ-FAUVETY ‘s tasting notes – Retailer ; “De Corps et d’Esprit” in Paris

The nose varies between fruit compote and a soup of red fruits. Chocolate, peony and raspberry, a precious and perceptible note of wood, between mahogany and rosewood. I find (and maybe it’s only me) a touch of dried currants, then blackberry and raspberry jelly, lots of charm emanates from the glass. The palate is as hydrating as water, cherry pit followed by fruit compote (again). The retro-olfaction unveils the wine’s full potential, black pepper, wild raspberry, brown tobacco, licorice, and leads you toward a direct and intense finish where the terroir’s minerality comes through, without the fruit ever leaving. It’s truly long.
2010: Nose of blood, earth, matchstick, tree-beech-birch wood, with prolonged aeration a meaty note close to veal tripe, red fruits also with a small note of blackcurrant, sandalwood, a sensation that the wine is colder than it really is, as the freshness of the aromas imposes itself. On the palette, currant and raspberry jellies, blood orange marmalade, invading with perfectly ripe tannins. 94+
2009: Floral and mineral nose with a great complexity. Mixed chocolates, purée of flowers, linear but without the slightest austerity. One is blown away by the harmony and the class given off by the wine. Fruity and energetic palette, cherry, fruit pit, a directness and a magnificent tension on the finish, very nice work.
2008: Pastry, floral, a certain sweetness that, curiously, makes it resemble classic Santenots. It’s as if the two wines played musical chairs, raspberry and strawberry jam, blackberry and blackcurrant jelly, much more charming, feminine, and seductive than expected, distilled Burgundy fruits. The wine is in evolution, today there is plenty of fruit, of juice, of liveliness that will progress over the next five years, there is a naturalness in the retro-olfaction that gives proof to this, the finish is as savory as for a white wine, intense, with an uncompromising structure, great wine of tomorrow.
2007: The MEURSAULT CAILLERETS is superb. Refined, floral, elegant, lots of juiciness on the palette with beautiful ripeness. Linear, precise, superb.