Maison Louis Latour spotlight
Official Louis Latour: the Corton Grancey cuverie in Aloxe-Corton, gravity winery since 1834, the house cellar behind this Meursault.
The market on this bottle
Wine-Searcher tracks this 2024 Louis Latour Meursault Cote de Beaune, France across the open market. Their published U.S. low is $88.40 and the average is $104.48. Our slash is $55.00.
375ML Half Bottle 2024 Louis Latour Meursault Cote de Beaune, France
Maison Louis Latour village Meursault, acacia and white peach, a half bottle you can open tonight at fifty-five dollars.
The 2024 Louis Latour Meursault in 375ml is village Chardonnay from marly limestone, barrel fermented, 8 to 10 months with 15 percent new oak from the house cooperage, now $55.
Village Meursault, two glasses, no grand-cru ticket
Maison Louis Latour has bottled Burgundy since 1797 and still makes its own barrels. The 2024 village Meursault is acacia, white peach, and lemon on marly limestone, in a 375ml you can finish with sea bass. This is the proof that Cote de Beaune Chardonnay does not need a premier-cru ask to be a real glass.
The house
Louis Latour, family-owned since 1797, largest Grand Cru holder on the Cote-d'Or, own cooperage in Beaune.
The wine
Village Meursault Chardonnay. 25-year vines, marly limestone, hand-picked, complete malolactic, 15 percent new oak.
The glass
Pale yellow with green highlights. Acacia, vanilla, white peach, lemon, mineral finish. Drink now through 2029.
The table
Sea bass or roast chicken. Serve near 54 F. No long decant. Two glasses.
Acacia, peach, and a mineral line
The house 2024 note is brilliant pale yellow with green highlights, acacia and vanilla on the nose, then round white peach and lemon zest with a mineral finish. Bill Nanson called the villages perfumed, fine, inviting, mouth-watering citrus. Ready now.
A small Burgundy crop. Latour's village Meursault kept definition and citrus. Built to drink now through 2029.
Acacia, vanilla, white peach, lemon zest, honeysuckle.
Round, complete malolactic, 8-10 months, 15% new house oak.
Mineral. Serve near 54 F. No long decant.
House barrels, fifteen percent new
Louis Latour is the only Burgundy house that ages its wines in barrels from its own cooperage. The 2024 Meursault is traditional barrel fermentation, complete malolactic, then 8 to 10 months in medium-toast French oak, 15 percent new. That is the house white-wine recipe: fruit first, oak as seasoning.
Vines average 25 years on marly limestone, 45 hectoliters a hectare, hand-picked. Meursault sits south of Volnay and Pommard and drinks sooner than Puligny next door. The 375ml is that village wine in two glasses.
Serve near 54 F. A white Burgundy glass. No long decant.
Eleven generations in Aloxe-Corton
The family were coopers first. Then they became one of Burgundy's great houses.
Maison Louis Latour was founded in 1797. The Corton Grancey cuverie, bought in 1891, was built in 1834 as France's first purpose-built winery, five levels into the hill so the wine moves by gravity.
The house still toasts its own barrels from northern French oak. That cooperage is why a village Meursault from Latour tastes like Latour.
The 2024 375ml is two glasses of that lineage. Acacia, peach, a mineral finish, fifty-five dollars.
Sea bass first, then roast chicken
Village Meursault with peach and lemon wants grilled sea bass and a lemon roast chicken, not a heavy cream sauce.
Two plates. One sea bass. One roast chicken. Both can take acacia, peach, and a mineral line.
Serve near 54 F. No decant. A white Burgundy glass.
Sea bass with fennel and lemon
Fennel, capers, grilled lemon. The fish Latour lists with this Meursault.
Why it works: Lemon and fennel echo citrus and minerality. The wine's round middle takes the butter in the pan.
View Recipe for Gordon Ramsay sea bass (opens in a new tab)
Roast chicken
High-heat roast, lemon, thyme. The bird that village Meursault was built for.
Why it works: Roast fat and lemon match vanilla and peach while acidity cuts the skin.
View Recipe for roast chicken (opens in a new tab)Open the Meursault half bottle tonight
Maison Louis Latour. Acacia, white peach, mineral finish. Fifty-five dollars. Two glasses.
Put it in the cart. This is village Meursault you can finish with dinner.
