A.Pernin-Rossin - Les Monts Luisants - 1988

Morey-Saint-Denis Premier Cru

Burgundy can be fiendishly complicated to understand sometimes! There are 20 premier cru vineyard sites within the Morey-Saint-Denis appellation, one of which is Les Monts Luisants - “the shining slopes”, after the bright green Chardonnay and Aligoté leaves that cover part of the vineyard, in contrast to the sea of red Pinot Noir leaves around them.

Pernin-Rossin’s 1988 Monts Luisants has a fair bit of bricking by now, and it throws a cloudy sediment. A powerfully cherried nose makes me think of many an Italian wine. Very sweet aromatics, with a lot of oak spice, but also leather. Fully resolved tannins – a delicious drink. Hints of gaminess start to show through after it has been open for two hours, but the cherried aromatics remain very dominant.