François Mikulski Meursault 1er Cru Charmes 2024 Fortified Wine precise and dry

precise and dry

and a mineral-driven finish—pure

The 2023 vintage was a difficult one: near-daily spring rains through May and June brought severe downy mildew across Montalcino

It is an unusual home for a Jura variety

rainy Tuscan vintage that demanded strict bunch selection before drying

François Mikulski Meursault 1er Cru Charmes 2024 Fortified Wine precise and dryThe Land Meursault has no grand cru, but its best premier crus play in that league, and Les Charmes is the plush, sensual heart of them. It is the largest of the Meursault 1ers, spread across 31 hectares on the lower, gentler slope between the village and Puligny. Mikulski's parcel is tiny, 0. 66 hectares of vines averaging around 50 years old, farmed since 1992 on a sharecropping arrangement. The subsoil is a bed of limestone slabs, and that rock is