The 2007 Meursault Les Perrières 1er Cru is a supremely gifted wine. It exudes life-affirming mineralité on a nose of powdered limestone mixed with hazelnut and a subtle fumé tincture. As I discerned before, there is a Puligny-like tension to this Perrières, and it has retained its pithy, weighty and satisfying finish. It is drinking beautifully now, but it unequivocally has a long life ahead of it. Tasted at a private dinner in Burgundy.

Good pale yellow. Knockout orange and mineral nose projects an impression of force that continues onto the palate. A wonderfully silky wine of outstanding intensity and lift. This has the fine-grained texture of a grand cru, not to mention the combination of suavity and power that characterizes the best examples of Perrieres. The palate-staining finish features a whiplash of flavor. The candid Coche was quick to say that the crop level here was a healthy 52 hectoliters per hectare, but it tastes like half that. I should note that the finished wine is much more classic and vibrant than a more glyceral barrel sample I tried last year, and Coche has also upped his opinion of this beauty.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate 22/12/2009 Coche’s 2007 Meursault Perrieres represents a leap in concentration and in diversity of mineral characteristics. Chalk, wet stone, and brine are already intimated in the nose, along with musk, narcissus, orange blossom, toasted nuts and citrus zest. On the subtly creamy palate, this diversity of mineral notes harmonizes vibrantly with floral, citric, and pit fruit flavors. Like a luscious peach close to the pit, and with chalk and salt allied to cyanic bitterness at its core, this finishes with a striking combination of pithy piquancy, minerality, and refreshment. It should be worth following for a dozen or more years. Jean-Francois Coche finished his 2007 Chardonnay harvest by mid-September, and of his whites were bottled in April. He characterizes the fruit as having been healthy, relatively high in malic acid, and easy to vinify, with alcohol levels (after very light but at this address routine chaptalization) between 12.5% and 13%. Coche is among many growers to not only draw the comparison with 2004, but to claim that this represents the only possible point of reference that even occurs to him. That said, he considers the 2007s slightly fruitier and more forward.