This is Adèle and Elsa Matrot’s fifth vintage at the helm of this family owned estate, having taken over from their father Thierry Matrot, who made the wines here for over three decades.
The domaine, which makes both reds and whites and is located in the centre of Meursault, has been organic since 2000. Chef de cave Gael Fouré has run the domaine’s cellar for 26 vintages.
2019 at Domaine Matrot is a familiar story of high quality and low yields. These are fine, acidity driven whites and darkly fruited reds, with a pleasing amount of flesh.
This is Adèle and Elsa Matrot’s fifth vintage at the helm of this family owned estate, having taken over from their father Thierry Matrot, who made the wines here for over three decades.
The domaine, which makes both reds and whites and is located in the centre of Meursault, has been organic since 2000. Chef de cave Gael Fouré has run the domaine’s cellar for 26 vintages.
2019 at Domaine Matrot is a familiar story of high quality and low yields. These are fine, acidity driven whites and darkly fruited reds, with a pleasing amount of flesh.
BOURGOGNE CHARDONNAY
This comes mainly from Meursault, with around 20% from Chablis. It tends to be picked early and be bottled around July. A crisp core of acidity refreshes the zesty lemon and grapefruit flavours, with an inviting pastried texture on the back-palate. 20% new oak providing flesh and presence.
Corney & Barrow Score 16.5
Recommended drinking from 2021 – 2024
£170.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
MEURSAULT
A nice meeting of struck-match minerality and fleshy peach fruit on the nose here, with honeysuckle perfume. The palate is succulent and giving, with sherbet and grapefruit notes, quite exotic, kept in check by stony minerality and a taut line of acidity. No new oak.
Corney & Barrow Score 17
Recommended drinking from 2022 – 2026
£410.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
MEURSAULT 1ER CRU BLAGNY
The white soils here – limestone and light clay – contribute to a fine chalky texture, which for me is the signature of this wine. A frisson of excitement on the pure, stony-mineral nose, with a fine line of smoky matchstick reduction. On the palate, the attack is fresh and confident, green citrus, pear and white flowers, enhanced by crisp acidity. A phenomenal sense of dry extract and creamy weight.
Corney & Barrow Score 18
Recommended drinking from 2024 – 2028
£595.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
MEURSAULT 1ER CRU CHARMES* (sold out)
This comes from four sites, totalling just over one hectare. 80% Charmes du Dessus (more mineral) and 20% Charmes du Dessous (broader). Delicate perfume – white flowers and honeysuckle, with grapefruit zest. The palate is plusher than usual – peach and apricot fruit, verging on exuberant – with that stony mineral definition beneath keeping things in check, coming to a beautifully focused finish. This spends 12 months in old oak and then six months in tank.
Corney & Barrow Score 17.5-18
Recommended drinking from 2024 – 2028
£645.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
MEURSAULT 1ER CRU PERRIÈRES* (sold out)
A fine, chalky-mineral nose of cool pear, peach and lemon, with hints of pastry. Very complete, very refined. The palate has that filigree grippy presence that high quality Meursault does so well, a sense of extract and stoniness channelling the fruit flavours and transporting you to its slopes. Intensely mineral, as is the way with Perrières. Textural and so fine, enhanced by the absence of new oak.
Corney & Barrow Score 18.5
Recommended drinking from 2024 – 2028
£795.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
PULIGNY-MONTRACHET 1ER CRU LES COMBETTES* (sold out)
The smallest holding of the domaine: only five or six barrels are made. It tends to be among the first sites harvested. Exuberant on the nose – the power of Combettes is unmistakable in a certain swagger, mingling with fine struck-match minerality and lifted white perfume, with a stone-fruited richness behind. The palate is citric on the attack – lime and zesty lemon – opening onto an orchard fruited mid-palate, with reverberating zingy energy persisting through to the long finish. This will be excellent.
Corney & Barrow Score 18+
Recommended drinking from 2025 – 2029
£795.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
MARANGES 1ER CRU LA FUSSIÈRE
The domaine has nearly two hectares in La Fuissière, which is just south of Santenay’s Clos Rousseau (as made by Justin Girardin). A pale ruby colour, with dark brambly aromas. The palate has a red berried, lissom elegance, very prettily lifted and expressive. This will drink well early – recommended!
Corney & Barrow Score 17
Recommended drinking from 2024 – 2029
£260.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
MEURSAULT ROUGE
Our eyes were really opened to this wine last year. Pinot from Meursault is increasingly a rarity and this is a lovely, open red-berried wine which deserves some love. All about the upfront charm and lush yet well-defined fruit, it has supple, easy-going tannins. Very pretty, an earlier drinker which will age too.
Corney & Barrow Score 17
Recommended drinking from 2023 – 2027
£285.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
BLAGNY 1ER CRU LA PIÈCE SOUS LE BOIS
This comes from a plot just above Sous le Dos d’Âne (the source of Domaine Leflaive’s Meursault) and directly beneath the wood of Blagny, hence the name. The habitual intense forest fruits and dark cherry aromas mingle with a sweet fruited lushness, nutmeg and sandalwood. The palate is stricter on the entry, a savoury, chalky minerality keeping the blackberry fruit flavours in check, then filling out as the palate progresses. The domaine’s flagship red, for good reason. 20% new oak.
Corney & Barrow Score 18
Recommended drinking from 2025 – 2032
£525.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
* Wines marked in this way will be allocated please speak to your salesperson.
BOURGOGNE CHARDONNAY
This comes mainly from Meursault, with around 20% from Chablis. It tends to be picked early and be bottled around July. A crisp core of acidity refreshes the zesty lemon and grapefruit flavours, with an inviting pastried texture on the back-palate. 20% new oak providing flesh and presence.
Corney & Barrow Score 16.5
Recommended drinking from 2021 – 2024
£170.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
MEURSAULT
A nice meeting of struck-match minerality and fleshy peach fruit on the nose here, with honeysuckle perfume. The palate is succulent and giving, with sherbet and grapefruit notes, quite exotic, kept in check by stony minerality and a taut line of acidity. No new oak.
Corney & Barrow Score 17
Recommended drinking from 2022 – 2026
£410.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
MEURSAULT 1ER CRU BLAGNY
The white soils here – limestone and light clay – contribute to a fine chalky texture, which for me is the signature of this wine. A frisson of excitement on the pure, stony-mineral nose, with a fine line of smoky matchstick reduction. On the palate, the attack is fresh and confident, green citrus, pear and white flowers, enhanced by crisp acidity. A phenomenal sense of dry extract and creamy weight.
Corney & Barrow Score 18
Recommended drinking from 2024 – 2028
£595.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
MEURSAULT 1ER CRU CHARMES* (sold out)
This comes from four sites, totalling just over one hectare. 80% Charmes du Dessus (more mineral) and 20% Charmes du Dessous (broader). Delicate perfume – white flowers and honeysuckle, with grapefruit zest. The palate is plusher than usual – peach and apricot fruit, verging on exuberant – with that stony mineral definition beneath keeping things in check, coming to a beautifully focused finish. This spends 12 months in old oak and then six months in tank.
Corney & Barrow Score 17.5-18
Recommended drinking from 2024 – 2028
£645.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
MEURSAULT 1ER CRU PERRIÈRES* (sold out)
A fine, chalky-mineral nose of cool pear, peach and lemon, with hints of pastry. Very complete, very refined. The palate has that filigree grippy presence that high quality Meursault does so well, a sense of extract and stoniness channelling the fruit flavours and transporting you to its slopes. Intensely mineral, as is the way with Perrières. Textural and so fine, enhanced by the absence of new oak.
Corney & Barrow Score 18.5
Recommended drinking from 2024 – 2028
£795.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
PULIGNY-MONTRACHET 1ER CRU LES COMBETTES* (sold out)
The smallest holding of the domaine: only five or six barrels are made. It tends to be among the first sites harvested. Exuberant on the nose – the power of Combettes is unmistakable in a certain swagger, mingling with fine struck-match minerality and lifted white perfume, with a stone-fruited richness behind. The palate is citric on the attack – lime and zesty lemon – opening onto an orchard fruited mid-palate, with reverberating zingy energy persisting through to the long finish. This will be excellent.
Corney & Barrow Score 18+
Recommended drinking from 2025 – 2029
£795.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
MARANGES 1ER CRU LA FUSSIÈRE
The domaine has nearly two hectares in La Fuissière, which is just south of Santenay’s Clos Rousseau (as made by Justin Girardin). A pale ruby colour, with dark brambly aromas. The palate has a red berried, lissom elegance, very prettily lifted and expressive. This will drink well early – recommended!
Corney & Barrow Score 17
Recommended drinking from 2024 – 2029
£260.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
MEURSAULT ROUGE
Our eyes were really opened to this wine last year. Pinot from Meursault is increasingly a rarity and this is a lovely, open red-berried wine which deserves some love. All about the upfront charm and lush yet well-defined fruit, it has supple, easy-going tannins. Very pretty, an earlier drinker which will age too.
Corney & Barrow Score 17
Recommended drinking from 2023 – 2027
£285.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
BLAGNY 1ER CRU LA PIÈCE SOUS LE BOIS
This comes from a plot just above Sous le Dos d’Âne (the source of Domaine Leflaive’s Meursault) and directly beneath the wood of Blagny, hence the name. The habitual intense forest fruits and dark cherry aromas mingle with a sweet fruited lushness, nutmeg and sandalwood. The palate is stricter on the entry, a savoury, chalky minerality keeping the blackberry fruit flavours in check, then filling out as the palate progresses. The domaine’s flagship red, for good reason. 20% new oak.
Corney & Barrow Score 18
Recommended drinking from 2025 – 2032
£525.00 / CASE OF 12 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK
* Wines marked in this way will be allocated please speak to your salesperson.