Hello everybody, welcome to wine library TV. I am your host Gary Vaynerchuk and this my friends is the Thunder Show. The internet’s most passionate wine program and today we’re going to focus on white Burgundy and specifically two single vineyard within the great 2007 vintage, let me rephrase that, solid 2007 vintage in burgundy from the Côte d’Or from a specific place called Meursalt and from two vineyards. The Les Genevrières and the Les Charmes that are absolutely positively undoubting two of the finest premiere crew vineyards in Meursault, probably right a step below the Perrières, the Les Perrières and from a very intriguing producer by the name of Boyer-Martenot who makes really spectacular wines. Both of these are the same wine except if you notice in the middle where it says Meursault, one says Genevrières and one says Charmes. And these are two spectacular white wines pricey, 60 bones for the Charmes and 66, double 6’s for the Genevrières. But Meursault wine is incredible. It’s from Côte d’Or, from Burgundy. There's been references to these wines since 1050. 1050, tough like thousand years.
It’s a very small area within in White Burgundy, 1100 acres very small red wine. Production about 2.5 million bottles produced and very high quality. 30% of all the wines made in this region are a premiere cru classification. So you’re talking about serious juice and today we look at the same producer, the same vintage, just different vineyards and let see what we get in this little bottle Royal. Little sniffly sniff for the kids, we’re doing the Charmes first, let's zoom in. We didn’t give its proper up, the Boyer-Martenot, Meursault Charmes Premiere Cru, Meursault 60 bones, 91 points Stephen Stanzer. And let's see what we got here on the sniffly sniff, very subtle, not too overly crazy.
Now Meursault is known for its oak and fusion, so it's buttery, creamy wines but the minerality of the soil, limestone, soils that they have always bring it a great balance. So aromatically not setting the world on fire just a subtle kind of like citrus, meets butteriness, but very light just like a little spray. If I can’t believe it's not butter and like a butter stick. Little citrus peel, I do get little kiwi on the nose which I find quite fascinating little more exotic that I would have expected. Little on the backend, pretty neat, let's give it a whirl.
There’s something like a private school ivy league presence smell, simmer in your Meursault. This is such a classic wine. You definitely get a little bit of that smokiness, a little bit of that wood action. You clearly get like a very sour focused citrus fruit, almost like scar fruit flavor coming through. I do get passion fruit on the mid palate which I find quite exotic and impressive, very focused, little crushed up rock, sea shell, limestone very, very much minerality singing throughout this wine. Give it one more shot. Nice grip on the mid palate, really brings it together. I like this wine. I like the complexity of this wine.
I also like the subtle buttered up flavors on this wine. I think this wine comes together very nicely over the next you know three to four years and this definitely white wine you can put away. This is some seriousness, also get a little bit like a chockey sheet rock action on the back end of the palate that should be recognized and talked about. Very well focused. I think Tanzer hits the mail in the head year. So 91, 92 point wine for my palate. Really 92 points, I really like it, very serious.
You give me a really like a whole fish right now fillet, like there's a beautiful fish and I will pound this wine into submission with that because it is a beautifully well-structured not too over the top, not too flabby, focused white Burgundy, great start. The Charmes comes out and it throws a left jab, countered a big right. And the Genevrières is going to have to answer. Let’s see if it can. Little sniffly sniff. More exotic nose, so I may have some thunder here. This is the Meursault, the Genevrières 90 points Tanzer, 66 dollars and again the Genevrières, the Genevrières vineyard is about 40, 41 acres in size. So some central size but not too crazy when you think of 41 out of 1100, but definitely more intense nose than the prior one. Just bigger, bolder, there’s more stuff going on. I get a grainiest. So it was a little ricola kind of like that kind of thing going on, on the nose. If you know, like a little bit of cough medicine type of kabuni.
But again a little bit of buttered kind of apple thing going on here as well, pretty nose, very pretty. Let’s give it a whirl. Got very surprise on the initial attack because it was a little bit lighter and a little more flabby than I've expected it. As a matter of fact, I find it quite disappointing. The early, you know it's kind of your team came out, kind of like the Raiders came against the Giants. That was like 21- nothing. I mean it was like 28-nothing before you sneeze. Matt, you must been happy about that. This wine initial presence on the palate it's kind of like the Raiders just came out flat, it didn’t show up. Just pick up scheme on the mid palate and the finish is quite nice actually.
I get apples, I get a mintiness that I like this wine as well. I can’t get over to that initial entry of this wine and let me score this wine 86 points. I think Tanzer is off on this. I think it’s a light effort in the beginning and really alarming at best. So for a vineyard that’s considered better than shown by a lot people but not obviously very close. Well, Tanzer scored a point less Matt, which is kind of intriguing. It's six bones more, 10% more and 30% less interesting. I'm going to give this wine a pass, so I could not just see myself recommending this two you guys in any shape or form. 66 bones, I don’t know, 33 doesn’t even sound that appealing to me. I'm going to go 85 points. I'm just being nice out of respect. Nice work little Wesley walker for the kids. Yeah, just a disappointing effort, disappointing.
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