Winemaker Notes
Dark ruby. Intense aromas of ripe dark fruit mixed with dark cherry and spices. Complex, well-structured. Deep and tight texture. Well-shaped oak note. Long and generous finish with a hint of minerality.
Enjoy with grilled steack (entrecôte), game, stuffed meat, and all the local cheeses (Brillat-Savarin, Epoisses, Citeaux, Langres).
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2019 Domaine Chanson Pernand-Vergelesses Premier Cru Les Vergelesses shows excellent elevation on the palate. TASTING NOTES: This wine comes to the table with alluring aromas and flavors of bright red and black fruit, savory spices, and dried earth. Enjoy it with grilled lamb chops. (Tasted: February 24, 2021, San Francisco, CA)
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James Suckling
Bright forest-berry nose with delicate herbal notes. No giant, but the wines from this appellation seldom are. However, it has well-crafted tannins and good depth on the medium-bodied palate. Nice drive on the bright finish, thanks to the healthy acidity. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Coming from the Côte de Beaune, the 2019 Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Les Vergelesses has a medium ruby hue as well as a pretty, perfumed nose of red plums and bright raspberry-like fruits as well as sappy flower and rose petal notes. It's quite perfumed and expressive aromatically and is medium-bodied on the palate, with silky tannins, some nicely integrated oak, and a great finish. As with the other releases, it needs lots of air to show at its best, and it really didn't come together until the second day, which I think bodes well for its ageability. Rating: 91+
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Wine Spectator
An intense style, evoking black cherry, blackberry, spice and earth flavors that quickly become entangled with the dense, dusty tannins. As a result, the finish is pinched for now. Best from 2024 through 2036. 50 cases imported.
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.