Winemaker Notes
A beautiful dark ruby color with a lot of depth. The nose is very open, elegant with notes of very ripe black fruits. The palate is fine and elegant, well balanced. Ample, opulent, it requires a little ventilation to develop all its complexity. The purity of the fruit, the quality of the tannins, and its elegance make it a subtle and delicate wine.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Château de Santenay Beaune 1er Cru Montée Rouge is fresh, bright, and fruity. TASTING NOTES: This wine offers excellent aromas and flavors of ripe berries and hints of aromatic flowers. Enjoy it with a lightly-seasoned lamb stew. (Tasted: August 12, 2021, San Francisco, CA)
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Wine Enthusiast
A lifted tone suggesting black-currant and blackberry candy precedes ripe black-cherry notes on the nose of this wine. Vivid fruit also plays on the palate, which is slightly concentrated but toned, and comes to a fresh finish.
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.