Winemaker Notes
Deep in color. The nose is ripe, with a little bit of oak char. On the palate, a little too oaky for the weight of the wine. Smoke and earth and tannin - a little angular. The wine is quite lively, but doesn't have the body to handle the oak and acidity.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Opening in the glass with notions of cherries, wild berries, loamy soil and spices, Mongeard-Mugneret's 2019 Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Les Vergelesses is medium-bodied, bright and charming, with lively acids, powdery tannins and an elegant, giving profile.
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Wine Spectator
A taut, linear red, this exhibits cherry, currant and spice flavors. Vibrant and detailed, with fine balance and length. Good grip in the end. Best from 2024 through 2038.
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.”
Occupying the most northerly combe (the French term for a valley that cuts through a hillside) of the Côte de Beaune, Pernand-Vergelles sits to the west of and behind the hill of Corton. The most sought after whites of the village come from the slope of Pernand on the side of Corton where Pernand-Vergelles shares the Grand Cru Corton-Charlemagne with Aloxe-Corton. The best red producing Cru is Les Vergelles, which overlaps into Savigny-les-Beaune. Reds here are fleshy, seductive and structured while whites are both lively and age worthy.