Winemaker Notes
The Sous Le Château Blanc is the result of a subtle harmony between the solar maturity of the climate and the rusticity of its soil: a powerful, structured wine, full of richness with fat and substance. The warm mouth of apricot, peach, spicy and mineral notes, will develop delicious aromas of white truffle if you know how to wait between 8 and 10 years.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The terrific 2020 Saint-Romain Sous le Château mingles aromas of orange zest and crisp orchard fruit with hints of baking spices, pastry cream, white flowers and youthful reduction. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and racy, with a bright spine of acidity and a long, chalky finish, it's a weightless, ethereal white Burgundy of real class and distinction.
Rating: 92+
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.
A classic source of exceptional Chardonnay as well as Pinot Noir, the Côte de Beaune makes up the southern half of the Côte d’Or. Its principal wine-producing villages are Pernand-Vergelesses, Aloxe-Corton, Beaune, Pommard, Volnay, Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet and Chassagne-Montrachet.
The area is named for its own important town of Beaune, which is essentially the center of the Burgundy wine business and where many negociants center their work. Hospices de Beaune, the annual wine auction, is based here as well.