Germain crafts a tiny amount of wine from Meursault’s most revered terroir. Much of Perrières’ soil is made up of limestone debris and this brings both great minerality and underlying richness (rocks bring warmth and limestone brings mineral freshness). Germain’s version—cropped from just 0.12 hectares in the sector known as Les Petites Perrières—is—like his Charmes—of Grand Cru standard. It’s the kind of wine that can only result from a combination of perfectly ripe berries and long, patient vinification. Do not expect a lean, austere version of this terroir, rather Germain always offers up a Perrières that is deep and powerful (yet very mineral). If Jean-Marie Guffens made a Perrières…