Domaine Jean Marc Roulot Meursault Meix Chavaux 2018 Bouteille (75cl)
The 2018 Domaine Jean Marc Roulot Meursault Meix Chavaux is a white Burgundy wine from the Meursault appellation. This village cuvée is crafted exclusively from Chardonnay and bears the name of the climat Les Meix Chavaux, officially registered among the lieu-dits of the appellation. It thus expresses a single-plot interpretation of Meursault by Domaine Jean Marc Roulot.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- 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
- Meix Chavaux
- Millésime
- 2018
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.
Meix Chavaux
Les Meix Chavaux is a 10.25-hectare climat located in the northwest of Meursault, near Auxey-Duresses and at the mouth of its combe. It occupies the middle of the hillside, between approximately 240 and 260 meters, immediately above the Ruisseau des Clous. The soils are clay-limestone, stonier and shallower in the upper part, with generally favorable drainage. The sector, subject to the cool influence of the combe, falls under the Meursault appellation at the Village level.
- Vineyard commune
- Meursault
- Origin of the vineyard name
- « Meix » designates the land or rural estate around a house; « Chavaux » is thought to be linked to « chef val », the upper part of a small valley. However, the published interpretations are not entirely consistent.
- Altitude
- 240–260 m
- Soil
- Clay-limestone soils, stony and relatively deep in the lower part, more gravelly and shallower in the upper part.
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Estate holding in the vineyard (ha)
- 0.950000 ha
- Vineyard holding status
- Owner, estate wine from its own parcels
- Indicative vine age
- Parcels planted in 1929, 1947, 1957, 1975, 1983 and 1996.
Histoire de la parcelle
The UNESCO nomination dossier for the Climats du vignoble de Bourgogne lists Les Meix Chavaux in cadastral section AL of Meursault, on plots 17 to 35 of the 1971 cadastre, covering 10 ha 25 a 58 ca. The site was already distinguished in the 1861 wine classification, where Les Meix-Chavaux appeared among the third-class terroirs of Meursault.
