A typical Meursault nose offers up notes of hazelnut and acacia blossom along with background nuances of sulfur and wood toast. There is excellent minerality and punch to the middle weight flavors that display fine delineation before concluding in a clean, dry and focused finish. This is lovely and very Narvaux.

Score: 89-91 Allen Meadow (AM), Bourghound (BH), June 2019

Aromas of hazelnut cream, green orchard fruit, crisp white peach and spring flowers introduce the 2017 Meursault Les Narvaux, a medium to full-bodied wine with good depth at the core, bright acids and chalky structuring dry extract. It´s one of the more reserved wines in this year´s collection but it´s very promising.

Pierre-Yves Colin described the 2017 vintage as "pure and transparent," with the wines nicely defined by their terroirs. They are, he adds, "more charming than I imagined—less ´cold´ in style." Old vines, he says, produced notably more interesting musts than younger plantings, an observation borne out along the Côte. Colin began picking early, on August 28, as usual privileging freshness; though I wonder if a successful experiment with picking his Corton-Charlemagne a little later than had been his habit suggests that the stylistic pendulum may be about to subtly swing at this address? In any case, he has produced a successful range, true to the strong house style, though showing comparatively little overt reduction when I visited after the harvest. As ever, no distinction is made on the labels between domaine and négociant wines, and Colin is increasingly taking responsibility for farming the parcels from which he purchases fruit.

Score: 89-91 William Kelley (WK), The Wine Advocate (WA), February 2019