Winemaker Notes
The wine displays a pure, precise, and fresh nose with aromas of blackcurrants, red cherries, and strawberries. On the palate, it is juicy, energetic, and crisp, with an expressive, dense, and fleshy character that seduces with its accessibility. This generous and elegant red pairs beautifully with jambon persillé or Lyon saucisson, and it also complements fatted chicken with ceps, guinea fowl with shallots, or grilled veal kidney, offering versatile inspiration for a range of flavorful pairings.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This restrained wine has lovely savory aromas of spices and dried flowers. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grained tannins and bright acidity, giving flavors of red cherries, terra cotta, citrus peel and bark. Lovely purity and tension.
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.”
The origin of perhaps the world’s very finest Pinot Noir, Côte de Nuits is the northern half of the Côte d'Or and includes the famous wine villages of Gevrey-Chambertin, Morey-St-Denis, Chambolle-Musigny, Vougeot, Vosne-Romanée, Flagey-Echezeaux and Nuits-St-Georges.
Fine whites from Chardonnay are certainly found in the Côte de Nuits, but with much less frequency than top-performing reds made of Pinot noir. The little village of Nuits-St-Georges in its southern end gave the region its name: Côte de Nuits. The city of Dijon marks its northern border.