Winemaker Notes
The structured rich wine gives off notes of red fruits on the nose mingles with a flattering swish of cherry, spicy oak and stony minerality flavors to give a very appealing style. Chateau de Santenay is located in Beaune, the wine capital of Burgundy. Beaune wines are full and fleshy which is present in the Beaune 1er Cru with all its tannins.
Chateau de Santenay - Beaune 1er Cru pairs beautifully with turkey and mushrooms, especially morels. The winemaker suggests a rich morel risotto to go with this wine.
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From one of the lesser-known Beaune Premier Crus, this wine is named after the vineyard's red soil. Opulent and rich, it offers a mix of firm, dry tannins and generous black fruits. It is a wine for aging and will be best from 2024. Cellar Selection.
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.”
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.