Winemaker Notes
Sauve aromas of fruit and flowers harmoniously blended with just the right touch of oak. This is a rich wine with expressive aromas and extraordinary smoothness. Good ageing potential.
Pair with fish and poultry with fairly spicy sauces.
Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
This has been racked from barrel to foudre. A little more colour here but bright and invigorating. Slightly lemon scented, with quite nuanced fruit, some citrus, some fresh plums, hazelnuts, good length. Distinguished. Drink from 2025-2030.
Barrel Sample: 91-93 -
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2021 Beaune 1er Cru Clos Saint-Landry Blanc wafts from the glass with aromas of pear, citrus oil, white flowers and freshly baked bread. Medium to full-bodied, racy and enveloping, this site has performed very well in this challenging vintage, which appears to have brought the cut that this cuvée sometimes lacks.
Barrel Sample: 90-92 -
Wine Spectator
A racy style, whose bracing acidity sets the pace for apple, lemon and mineral flavors wrapped in toasty oak. There's enough flesh to offset the austerity. Drink now through 2030. 65 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.
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.