Winemaker Notes
This plot used to belong to the Count of Vergennes, who was counselor of the King Louis XVI and signatory to the Treaty of Independence of the United States. Beautiful gold color. Intense aromas of pale fleshed fruit (pear) coated with honey, toasted brioche aromas and vanilla. Elegant, ample, generous and well balanced. Excellent aromatic combination with a hint of minerality. Very long finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Domaine Chanson Corton Vergennes is a beautiful and classic wine. TASTING NOTES: This generous wine offers bold, ripe fruit, earth, and spice in its aromas and flavors. Pair it with grilled lobster in a cream sauce. (Tasted: February 4, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
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Wine Enthusiast
The shy nose on this wine remains closed even with swirling. The palate reveals a still tightly coiled body of creamy density, compressed lemon and Mirabelle bedded on a very textured, smooth midpalate. Something understated and statuesque here needs time to blossom. Drink 2025–2035.
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Wine Spectator
Lemon oil, sweet corn, apple and butterscotch flavors highlight this succulent white. It's firmly structured, balanced in a steely way, and leaves a chalky feel on the long, mouthwatering finish. Best from 2022 through 2030.
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Wine & Spirits
Tight and youthful, this is a concentrated grand cru with cool ripe flavors of melon and white peach. It opens gracefully with air, the flavors still tucked behind powerful grape-skin tannins, as yet to give any clues about its deeper complexities. For the cellar.
Founded in 1750, Chanson is one of the five grand "shippers" of Burgundy's Côte d'O r- an estate steeped in centuries-old tradition and rich in viticultural history. As a négociant (winemaker and merchant) and a domaine (vineyard estate), Chanson has represented the best of Burgundy for more than 250 years, growing its own grapes, partnering with other growers, bottling, selling, and shipping its own wines.
Chanson's holdings comprise some of Burgundy's most coveted vineyards. Located in the heart of the Côte de Beaune (the historical center of Burgundy) and surrounded by some of the greatest vineyards in the world, Chanson can count French philosophe Voltaire, romantic poet Lamartine, and the Bonaparte family among its clients.
Its celebrated bastion, a 15th-century fortress first rented and then acquired in 1794 to cellar the wines, is an internationally celebrated icon of Burgundy (the largest of six bastions that form part of the wall surrounding the city of Beaune).
To visit Chanson is to travel back in time and experience the magic of the 1000-year-old tradition of winemaking. Chanson still vinifies and cellars its wines in the bastion as it has for over 200 years. The 10-meter thick walls of this ancient fortress make it ideal for winemaking.
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.
Another charming village of the Côte de Beaune district of Burgundy’s Côte d’Or, Ladoix-Serrigny produces mainly Premier Cru Pinot Noir, but also some Chardonnay. Interestingly, some of the villages’ Premiers Crus vineyards overlap with nearby Aloxe-Corton.