Winemaker Notes
Purplish red color with dark red reflections. A fruity nose with aromas of black fruit, blackcurrant, blackberries. Medium bodied with fine tannins and fresh acidity that ensure this wine is built to improve with short to medium-term aging.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2019 Prosper Maufoux Hautes-Côtes-de-Beaune Pinot Noir is vivid and attractive. TASTING NOTES: This wine exhibits pleasing aromas and flavors of red fruit, sandalwood, and a faint note of savory spices. Pair it with fresh mint-accented, grilled lamb chops. (Tasted: June 10, 2021, 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.”
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.