Winemaker Notes
Lovely, dark garnet color, with a beautiful shine. Good aromatic intensity. The nose is very fresh, with notes of red and back fruit on a mineral, smoky background (marl, limestone). Well-defined, fresh and fruity on the palate. Good structure and balance, the tannins are present but fine. Persistent finish ending on fruitness and mineral freshness.
Pair this wine alongside charcuterie and red meat such as fillet of beef in sauce, roast lamb shank and a selection of cheeses.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This appellation, often underrated and equally often overperforming, has produced a ripe, well-poised wine. Its tannins and juicy red-cherry fruits are delicious and likely to age well. Drink this wine from 2022.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2017 Maison Champy Pernand-Vergelesses Rouge is Old Burgundy at its best. TASTING NOTES: This wine is rustic and beautiful. Its aromas and flavors of dried herbs, sage, red fruits, and earth should pair well with braised beef tongue. (Tasted: September 9, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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.”
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.