Buisson-Charles is a small Meursault domaine of 6.3 hectares now run by Catherine Buisson, daughter of third-generation vigneron Michel Buisson, alongside her husband Patrick Essa, a trained oenologist who took over winemaking in 2009. Their son Louis joined fully with the 2019 vintage. The vineyards are farmed organically, the wines vinified without chaptalization or acidification, and bottled without fining or filtration. The house style picks late, deliberately, on the conviction that most Meursault is harvested too early. The wines are concentrated, layered, and built for the long haul.

The Vigne de 1945 is Buisson-Charles's old-vine bottling from a tiny parcel in the lieu-dit Les Pellans, just below Meursault Charmes 1er Cru and right against the Puligny-Montrachet boundary. The vines were planted in March 1945, just before the end of the war, on limestone marl, and yields are naturally low. Since the 2015 vintage, the parcel has been bottled separately from the Vieilles Vignes cuvée. Grapes are hand-harvested, gently pressed, fermented with indigenous yeasts, and aged 18 months in neutral oak.

2023 was a hot, sunny, and bountiful Meursault vintage, with two heat waves and a destructive late-July hailstorm that cost Buisson-Charles 20 to 25% of their crop in the best parcels. Patrick picked between September 14 and 21 to preserve freshness, and the wines have come in dense but balanced. The Vigne de 1945 carries that density with white peach, citrus zest, and a chalky, almost stone-like grip beneath.