Domaine Arnaud Tessier’s Meursault Poruzot Dessus is one of the estate’s finest Premier Cru white wine expressions, produced from a parcel in the Poruzot Premier Cru’s upper section, known as Poruzot Dessus, whose shallower, more stony soils and slightly better drainage produce a wine of greater mineral tension and linear precision than the fuller, more generous character of the Poruzot Dessous below. Poruzot is a 15-hectare Premier Cru whose south-south-east facing slopes above the village of Meursault produce Chardonnay of considerable depth and mineral authority, often regarded as one of the three finest Meursault Premier Crus alongside Perrières and Génevrières. The magnum format offered here represents the ideal cellaring proposition for a wine of this ambition and ageing potential from a quality-focused independent domaine whose minimal-intervention approach and restrained new oak philosophy allow the Poruzot Dessus terroir to speak with unusual transparency.

The 2020 Meursault vintage was warm and generous, producing wines of excellent concentration and aromatic richness that provide early pleasure while retaining sufficient natural acidity and mineral depth for medium-term development. For the Poruzot Dessus specifically, whose naturally more stony and mineral upper-slope character provides greater freshness than the richer lower sections, the 2020’s warmth should be moderately expressed rather than dominant, and the wine’s development in the magnum over the next decade should reveal a balance of concentration and mineral precision that places it firmly among the finest Meursault Premier Cru expressions from this carefully farmed and thoughtfully produced domaine.

A Meursault Premier Cru Poruzot Dessus magnum from a quality-focused, low-intervention independent estate represents the finest format for the most serious cellaring approach to this wine and this site. For collectors who have followed Arnaud Tessier’s work and for those who seek mature Meursault Premier Cru of documented quality, this is an outstanding and patient investment in one of the appellation’s most consistently mineral and structured sites.

Pale gold with a mineral and focused nose of lemon oil, white peach, chalk, toasted almond and the linear mineral precision of the Poruzot Dessus upper-slope limestone soils. Full-bodied with excellent natural acidity, good concentration from the 2020 vintage and a long, mineral, structured finish. Best from 2026 through 2038.