Winemaker Notes
The elegant nose features scents of white-fleshed fruit along with a discrete hint of oak. This wine is mineral, nervous and round, with lovely length on the palate.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Apricot stones, yellow nectarines, toasted hazelnuts and mangoes here. Some salted yellow plums. Full-bodied and flavorful, with tasty fleshy yellow fruit and an energetic finish. From organically grown grapes. Drink now.
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Jasper Morris
Mid lemon yellow. 15-20% new wood shows on the nose, but will integrate. Pure white fruit, then coconut from the oak, before refining to a slimmer finish, with good length. Just needs time for fruit and oak to integrate then will make a fine white Mercurey. Barrel Sample: 88-90
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Wine Spectator
Juicy and exuberant, offering apple and lemon flavors wrapped in an embrace of vanilla, clove and toasty oak notes. This white settles down midpalate, where racy acidity takes over. Mouthwatering finish. Drink now through 2027. 1,693 cases made, 200 cases imported.
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.
Beloved for its deep and flavorful reds made of Pinot Noir, Mercurey is the largest and most important village in the Côte Chalonnaise of Burgundy with most of its vineyards tucked away in hillsides or stretched along the aptly-named “Golden Valley.” This valley, sheltered from the moist and cool air that funnels along at lower elevations, is ideal for ripening Pinot noir.
Mercurey follows strict yield laws, similar to those at the Côte d’Or village level, promoting the development of deep, full, concentrated and age-worthy Pinot noirs. In their youth, a chewy and rich structure supports flavors of ripe strawberry, raspberry and cherry. Age brings notes of underbrush, tobacco and cocoa.
While Pinot Noir claims the majority of Mercurey vineyard acreage, Chardonnay does grow here and produces uniqely floral and spicey scented white wines.