Winemaker Notes
A well-balanced, straightforward wine with pleasant aromas of white fruit and oak. It will develop in the bottle for 5 to 10 years.
Serve with white meats, vegetarian fare such as gratins and fresh cheeses such as goat cheese.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
From a vineyard high up the slope, this wine has great minerality. Its acidity and crisp texture are delicious, bringing in some apple and citrus flavors. Drink this wine from 2022.
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James Suckling
Aromas of sliced lemons, strawberries and flowers. Medium-bodied, tight and focused with bright acidity and a clean finish. Shows focus and finesse. Drink now.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Like its red counterpart, the 2017 Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Clos de la Croix de Pierre Blanc (Domaine des Héritiers Jadot) is very promising, revealing notes of white flowers, ripe citrus fruit, beeswax and subtle new oak. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, deep and nicely layered, with a sappy core of fruit, bright acids and a long, mineral finish.
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Wine Spectator
A graphite edge leads off in this cherry- and raspberry-flavored red. Firm and juicy, with a mineral element lingering on the finish. Drink now through 2024.
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.
Occupying the most northerly combe (the French term for a valley that cuts through a hillside) of the Côte de Beaune, Pernand-Vergelles sits to the west of and behind the hill of Corton. The most sought after whites of the village come from the slope of Pernand on the side of Corton where Pernand-Vergelles shares the Grand Cru Corton-Charlemagne with Aloxe-Corton. The best red producing Cru is Les Vergelles, which overlaps into Savigny-les-Beaune. Reds here are fleshy, seductive and structured while whites are both lively and age worthy.