Winemaker Notes
Sous Fretille is a Premier Cru site located on the slopes above Pernand-Vergelesses in the Côte de Beaune region of Burgundy. Fermentation takes places in temperature-controlled vats with aging in French oak barrels of 228 liters.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This taut, textured wine has a great future. With acidity and crispness underlined by minerality, the wine will be ready from 2022.
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James Suckling
This has a very attractive edge of freshness on the nose with an array of peach, lemon and lime aromas that offer a fresh impression. Great power and strength to the palate. Long, tart and fresh citrus fruit delivers well on the finish. Drink or hold.
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Wine & Spirits
Quiet richness pervades this satisfying wine, its time in oak taking the lemon-cream flavors in the direction of marzipan and fresh croissant. A full-bodied Pernand, it carries its weight with grace.
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.