Winemaker Notes
A lovely white wine with minerality, freshness and floral notes.
Professional Ratings
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Vinous
The 2022 Savigny-lès-Beaune Blanc Les Saucours comes from a vineyard that was regrafted with Chardonnay ten years ago (the plot is adjacent to Chenu's). This took one year to complete the fermentation and was aged in Stockinger foudres. It has a lightly honeyed, beeswax- and peppermint-tinged bouquet with subtle passion fruit scents. The palate is well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, a little Roussane-like in style, with just a twist of sour lemon. This is going to be wonderful.
Barrel Sample: 89-91
One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
Savigny-lès-Beaune is a small village near Beaune that produces delightful red and white wines under its own appellation name. Cut by a river, the vineyards on its southern side have sandy soils that result in charming, floral reds. Premiers Crus vineyards on this side include Les Peuillets, Les Narbantons, Les Rouvrettes and Les Marconnets.
On Savigny’s northern side, bordering Pernand-Vergelles, vineyards are planted on rocky soils and produce juicy and spicy Pinot Noir. The village’s best whites, all made of Chardonnay, are full on the palate and abound in texture, complexity and freshness.