Winemaker Notes
The limestone cliffs around the quaint village of Saint-Romain form a spectacular amphitheater of vineyards that are neatly concealed from the route nationale view, just behind Meursault and Auxey-Duresses. Buisson fashions a wine with both ample flesh and stoniness. It has pretty good staying power as well.
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Wine Spectator
This rich version is full of lemon cake, peach, butter and spice flavors, backed by tangy acidity. This drapes across the palate like a fine suit, with a lingering aftertaste of lemon and mineral. Drink now through 2020. 120 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.
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.