Domain Jean Marc Roulot Meursault Les Charmes 2016
The 2016 Domaine Jean Marc Roulot Meursault Les Charmes is a dry white Burgundy wine from the Charmes climat in the Meursault 1er Cru appellation. Produced by Domaine Jean Marc Roulot, it is crafted exclusively from Chardonnay. This 2016 Meursault displays a medium-bodied profile and oak aging, two benchmarks that underscore the classic structure of a fine white from the Côte de Beaune.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- White
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Meursault
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine Jean Marc Roulot
- Parcelle / Cru
- Charmes (Meursault)
- Millésime
- 2016
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Chardonnay
Domaine Jean Marc Roulot
Domaine Jean-Marc Roulot is a family-run estate based in Meursault, on the Côte de Beaune. Managed by Jean-Marc Roulot since 1989, it mainly cultivates Chardonnay plots in Meursault, as well as a few vineyards in neighbouring appellations. The vineyard is managed using organic and biodynamic farming methods.
- Owner
- Jean-Marc Roulot
- Maître de chais
- Éric Bodin
- Surface (ha)
- 15.00 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- environ 80 000 bouteilles/an
Histoire du domaine
The Roulot family has been based in Meursault since the late 18th century. The estate, in its modern form, developed primarily from the 1950s onwards under the leadership of Guy Roulot, born in 1929. His marriage to Geneviève Coche coincided with the expansion of the family’s wine-growing estate. Guy Roulot played a key role in promoting the separate bottling of wines from several ‘lieux-dits’ in Meursault. Following his death in 1982, the estate was temporarily managed by a succession of winemakers. His son Jean-Marc Roulot, who was then pursuing a career as an actor in Paris, finally took over the estate in January 1989. He continued to expand the vineyard and converted the vines to organic farming from 1999 onwards. The estate is now run by Jean-Marc Roulot, with Éric Bodin as cellar master and head of winemaking at his side.
Charmes (Meursault)
Charmes is a Premier Cru climat of Meursault, located south of the village near the border with Puligny-Montrachet. It encompasses the lieux-dits Les Charmes-Dessus and Les Charmes-Dessous and forms the largest Premier Cru climat in Meursault. Situated in the middle and lower part of the slope, it has a predominantly east to south-east exposure. Sources describe clay-limestone, stony soils resting notably on hard Jurassic limestones and marly limestones.
- Vineyard commune
- Meursault
- Origin of the vineyard name
- The name is thought to refer to former common fields left fallow or to land once planted with hornbeam trees.
- Exposure
- East to south-east
- Soil
- Clay-limestone soils, with a significant presence of limestone stones on the surface.
- Subsoil and geology
- Hard Jurassic limestone and marly limestone.
Histoire de la parcelle
Les Charmes-Dessus and Les Charmes-Dessous appear in the historical land registry of Meursault and are documented in particular by the maps from the Napoleonic cadastre preserved in the departmental archives of Côte-d’Or. Their unification under the climat name Charmes was consecrated by the delimitation of the Meursault Premier Cru appellation.
