Domaine Michelot is one of the oldest and most established family estates in Meursault, with a history in the village stretching back several generations and holdings across the village’s finest Premier Cru and village-level vineyards. The domaine produces a comprehensive range of Meursault that includes multiple Premier Cru expressions from the village’s most celebrated sites, and has long been a reliable source of classic, traditionally-styled Meursault for the trade buyers, restaurant lists and private collectors who appreciate the estate’s consistent quality and honest pricing relative to the more fashionable names in the village. Domaine Michelot represents the kind of well-established family estate that defines the qualitative backbone of Meursault production.

Les Charmes is the largest Premier Cru in Meursault by area and among the most reliably excellent, producing Chardonnay of considerable weight, aromatic generosity and the distinctive hazelnut and butter character associated with the village’s Premier Cru wines at their best. The site is divided into Charmes Dessus, the upper section with shallower soils and more mineral tension, and Charmes Dessous, the lower section with deeper clay that produces a fuller, richer style. The 2021 Meursault vintage was reduced in yield by the spring frost events that affected the entire Côte de Beaune, producing wines of greater concentration and mineral focus than the more generous 2022, and the finest examples show a structural precision and ageing potential that is entirely consistent with the best 1er Cru Meursaults of recent decades.

Meursault Premier Cru from an established family domaine in an excellent, low-yield vintage represents one of the most reliable categories for collectors of white Burgundy who seek wines of documented quality and consistent style at prices below those of the most fashionable names. Domaine Michelot’s Les Charmes is a wine for those who appreciate the classic Meursault profile: generous, textured, hazelnut-inflected Chardonnay from a Premier Cru site of proven quality, produced with the experience of a multi-generational family estate.

Pale gold with a rich and generous nose of white peach, toasted hazelnut, butter, lemon cream, flint and a fine mineral thread from the Les Charmes limestone terroir. Full-bodied on the palate with excellent texture from extended lees contact, good natural acidity and a long, generously proportioned, classic Meursault finish. Best from 2025 through 2036.