Chanson Pere & Fils Beaune Clos des Feves Premier Cru Monopole 2020
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2020 Chanson Pere & Fils Beaune Clos des Feves Premier Cru Monopole is robust, elegant, and long-lasting. TASTING NOTES: This wine delivers aromas and flavors of bold black fruit and mineral notes. Enjoy it with a grilled, well-marbled ribeye. (Tasted: February 16, 2022, San Francisco, CA)
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James Suckling
The deep nose of amarena cherry pulls you into this very ripe and concentrated Beaune 1er Cru, with a wonderfully creamy texture that ripples sensually over your palate, before the wine glides off into the velvety distance. Beneath the delicious surface this has a massive structure that will give it a very long life.
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Decanter
A wine of lovely precision, with a lush black cherry fruit, scented with violets and a savoury edge, while the texture combines plenty of firm tannin and yet a round, very 'complete' feel. This is definitely a winner. This emblematic monopole is in the heart of the appellation: 4ha in six separate blocks. The upper part is steep, with loamy soils, while the lower part has more clay.
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Wine & Spirits
This monopole of 10.13 acres sits mid-slope on the northern side of Beaune. In 2020, the wine wraps its broad ripeness in a bolt of silk, bringing blackcherry and tart red-cherry flavors into an opulent texture. There’s a rich overlay of oak, while the wine’s marked freshness carries through the wood to last on red fruit. Substantial, incipient, needing long aging.
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Wine Enthusiast
Energetic aromas of dark fruits, but with high tones of tangerine peel, wild berries, rose, limestone and peppercorn on the nose. The palate is incredibly floral with profuse rose and black cherries. Tannins slowly crawl and coat the roof and front of the palate, leaving traces of a black tea leaf that gently coats with what feels like boysenberry. Delicious with a bit of aeration.
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Wine Spectator
A ripe red, with blackberry, boysenberry and plum flavors shaded by earth and toasty oak. Lacks integration now, with the tannins flexing their muscles on the finish. Better with air.
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Founded in 1750, Chanson is one of the five grand "shippers" of Burgundy's Côte d'Or- an estate steeped in centuries-old tradition and rich in viticultural history. As a négociant (winemaker and merchant) and a domaine (vineyard estate), Chanson has represented the best of Burgundy for more than 250 years, growing its own grapes, partnering with other growers, bottling, selling, and shipping its own wines.
Chanson's holdings comprise some of Burgundy's most coveted vineyards. Located in the heart of the Côte de Beaune (the historical center of Burgundy) and surrounded by some of the greatest vineyards in the world, Chanson can count French philosophe Voltaire, romantic poet Lamartine, and the Bonaparte family among its clients.
Its celebrated bastion, a 15th-century fortress first rented and then acquired in 1794 to cellar the wines, is an internationally celebrated icon of Burgundy (the largest of six bastions that form part of the wall surrounding the city of Beaune).
To visit Chanson is to travel back in time and experience the magic of the 1000-year-old tradition of winemaking. Chanson still vinifies and cellars its wines in the bastion as it has for over 200 years. The 10-meter thick walls of this ancient fortress make it ideal for winemaking.
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
While the city represents the epicenter of wine production in Burgundy, the term, “Beaune” also refers to the specific sub-appellation of the greater Côte de Beaune, whose vineyards climb up the pastoral slopes that border the city to its west. Originally founded as a Roman camp by Julius Caesar, the city of Beaune eventually became the seat of the dukes of Burgundy until the 13th century. Today it is home to top négociants such as Louis Jadot, Joseph Drouhin, Louis Latour, and Bouchard Père et Fils.
The appellation, dominated by Pinot Noir plantings, represents a lovely and charming place to begin to understand red Burgundy. Its sandy soils create light and supple, floral driven Pinot Noir. These wines are designed to be enjoyed within five to 10 years. The vineyards of Beaune span a broad swath of Premier Crus from Savigny-lès-Beaune to its border with Pommard.
Chardonnay acreage here has been increasing here in the more recent years.