Winemaker Notes
Pale gold color. Refreshing and intense aromas of green apple on a hint of minerality. Well-balanced.Dense and precise texture. Long and tight finish.
This wine is to be enjoyed with seafood, fish, and mild cheeses.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Quite an oaky nose with a touch of melted butter, but with some aeration a wide spectrum of candied-fruit aromas emerge. Generous ripeness, but this is nicely balanced by the bright minerality. Long, flint and lemon finish. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.
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Wine Spectator
A lean, spice-inflected white, exhibiting lemon tart, apple and vanilla flavors. Rich, building in volume to the expansive finish. This gains complexity, too, picking up oyster shell and stony elements. Fine length. Drink now through 2025. 30 cases imported.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Solid aromatics of honeyed peach, orange blossom, hints of toast, and some chalky minerality all emerge from the 2019 Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Les Caradeux, a nicely textured, rich, yet still almost racy 2019 with a vibrant spin of acidity that comes through on the finish. You know this comes from a hot vintage, yet the balance is solid, and it finishes clean and dry.
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.
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.