Winemaker Notes
The wine’s nose bursts with aromas of apricot, peach, passion fruit, and spice, while the expressive palate is light, vibrant, and well-defined, combining the minerality of the limestone soil with the richness of the fruit. Its lively and harmonious character makes it ideal for aperitifs, and its freshness is enhanced by seafood, marinated salmon, and roasted fish with vegetables. Rounder expressions with exotic aromas pair beautifully with fresh foie gras with fleur de sel, pasta with salmon, fish in sauce, or poultry in cream, and it also complements creamy soft cheeses, honeyed goat cheese, Chaource, and Comté.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Aromas of lemon confit, grapefruit, melon, orchard fruit and white flowers. The palate is textural and rounded, with bright acidity and a slight phenolic grip that adds another dimension to the finish. There's underlying mineral tension and a pithy finish.
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.
Inhabiting the bottom end of the northern half of the Côte d’Or, Nuits-St-Georges is a busy, market-driven town and home to many of Burgundy’s negociants. It is also the largest town in the Côte d’Or after Beaune and contributes "nuits" to the name of Côte de Nuits (i.e., the northern half of the Côte d’Or).
The appellation itself is divided into two parts, where in the north it directly borders Vosne-Romanée, the southerly end is the commune of Prémeaux. There are no Grands Crus in this village, though it does have a large number of Premiers Crus.
The best Nuits-St-Georges Pinot Noir are layered with cherry, plum, underbrush and sandalwood. The fruit is sweet, the wine energetic, and the finish long and lush.