Winemaker Notes
This is a classic rustic red wine. A good Chorey-lès-Beaune should display aromas and flavors typical of red wines from Beaune with red fruits and flowers coupled with freshness and minerals. Tollot-Beaut is bright and perfumed with red cherries and slightly coarse tannins.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2014 Chorey les Beaune Villages has a lifted, high-toned bouquet, a little metallic at first but with plenty of fruit underneath. (A second sample from different barrels was more fruit-driven and showed much less of the oak.) The palate is sweet and fleshy, with oodles of lush red cherry and raspberry fruit with a touch of blueberry on the effervescent finish. Once that oak is absorbed, this will be a "cheeky" Chorey to enjoy over the next 4-5 years.
Barrel Sample: 87-89 -
Wine Spectator
A fruit bomb, this shouts with cherry, raspberry and sweet spice notes. Fresh and juicy, with fine length on the finish. Drink now through 2020. 880 cases imported.
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.