Winemaker Notes
The dress is yellow gold with green hues. The nose it is elegant
and complex, will seduce you with its citrus notes, floral and a melted woody. The mouth is full, rich
and mineral. This wine is concentrated, its finesse and its balance are in harmony with a final while
length.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
A ripe, tropical style, displaying mango, pineapple, apple, lemon and baking spice flavors. Broad and intense, with a lingering finish of vanilla and toasted spices. Shows terrific length and expression. Best from 2021 through 2030.
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.
A classic source of exceptional Chardonnay as well as Pinot Noir, the Côte de Beaune makes up the southern half of the Côte d’Or. Its principal wine-producing villages are Pernand-Vergelesses, Aloxe-Corton, Beaune, Pommard, Volnay, Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet and Chassagne-Montrachet.
The area is named for its own important town of Beaune, which is essentially the center of the Burgundy wine business and where many negociants center their work. Hospices de Beaune, the annual wine auction, is based here as well.