Winemaker Notes
Red Burgundy might be the world’s most flexible food wine. The wine’s high acidity, medium body, medium alcohol, and low tannins make it very food-friendly. Red Burgundy, with its earthy and sometimes gamey character, is a classic partner to roasted game birds, grilled duck breast, and dishes that feature mushrooms, black truffles, or are rich in umami.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2015 Chorey-les-Beaune Village was tasted as a blend of the two cuvées that Tollot-Beaut create. It has an attractive raspberry, wild strawberry and morello nose, a slight metallic note in the background though that ebbs away with time. The palate is silky smooth on the entry with blue and red berry fruit, saturated tannins and a generous, rounded, lightly-spiced finish. There is a pastille-like purity here and it constitutes to be an absolutely delicious village cru.
Range:89-91 -
Decanter
A terrific village Chorey from vines over ninety years old. Notes of juicy red cherry, coniferous sous bois and subtle espresso lead into a refined, well balanced and full-bodied palate showing impressive depth and intensity through the persistent finish. Drinking Window 2018 - 2045
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.”
A source of some of the most delightful Pinot Noir in Beaune, Chorey-les-Beaune is a great place to start exploring red Burgundies that do not command a great deal of cellar time. In style, they are akin to the reds of Aloxe-Corton but more fruit forward and approachable in their youth.