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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Jasper Morris
More yellow in the colour and with a reduction on the nose. Pale primrose. Some liquorice notes, I wouldn’t want this to be any riper, everything is so concentrated here. Plenty happening! Give it a year or three to calm down and then there should be some lovely wine.
Barrel Sample: 89-91 -
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Round and expressive, the 2019 Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Clos de la Croix de Pierre Blanc (Domaine des Héritiers Jadot) delivers aromas of buttered orchard fruit, ripe citrus, vanilla pod, white flowers and mint. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and enveloping, it's one of the most immediate, giving wines in the range.
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.