Appellations
Premier Cru · Côte de Beaune
Les Genevrières
Meursault · white · 16
Between Perrières above and Charmes below, and a good deal like both.
Under the vines
Mid-slope, shallower than Charmes and deeper than Perrières.
In the glass
Floral and structured, with more lift than Charmes and more flesh than Perrières.
Why it sits here
Its Hospices de Beaune cuvée is one of the best-known lots in the annual charity auction.
Commonly misread
That the three climats are interchangeable. Thirty metres of altitude separates them and it shows.
Names worth knowing
Comtes Lafon, Roulot, François Jobard, Bouchard