Winemaker Notes
Bright gold color. Floral fragrances mixed with intense aromas of white and yellow orchard fruit on a hint of minerality. Complex and well-balanced. Dense and tight texture. Long and elegant finish.
Pair with seafood, foie gras, fish in a creamy sauce, crayfish. Particularly great with a selection of French cheeses.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2019 Domaine Chanson Corton Vergennes Grand Cru is unabashedly powerful. TASTING NOTES: This wine is active and long with its aromas and flavors of ripe apple, creamy notes, earth, sandpaper, and chalk. Try it with roast veal in a mushroom, wine-reduction sauce. (Tasted: February 24, 2021, San Francisco, CA)
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James Suckling
Full quince-compote nose with a touch of curry leaf make this a very striking white Corton. Full-bodied and bold, but the pronounced acidity keeps this lively through the long, anise and lemon finish. Although this has 15.5% alcohol on the label, you don’t feel it. However, this might be a good reason to question the aging potential of this wine. From organically grown grapes. Drink now.
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Wine Spectator
Lush and creamy, this white evokes peach, lemon cake and toasty oak aromas and flavors supported by a well-integrated structure. This firms up by the finish, where a tactile feel comes into play. Drink now through 2028.
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Wine & Spirits
This stony hillock, once owned by Charles Gravier, Count of Vergennes, is now split between Chanson and the Hospices de Beaune. The wine is reticent, as young Corton can be, smoky with oak spice, with a terse Granny-Smith-apple juiciness in the end. Several decades of tasting have led me to look for structural markers in Corton that would predict its likelihood of aging well. In a vintage like 2019, a summer of heat and water stress, all that’s clear is that the wine is not ready to drink. What course 2019's may take in aging remains to be seen; this one seems an intriguing wine to follow.
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.