Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Tasting Panel
Medium ruby color; aromas of cherry and earth. Tangy and rich with ripe cherry and spice; smooth and long.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Lots of ripe red cherry and berry-like fruits as well as scorched earth and graphite emerge from the 2018 Savigny-Les-Beaune Les Marconnets. A medium-bodied, softy, beautifully textured, balanced 2018, it has ripe tannins, a notable sense of freshness and purity, and a great finish. It's a joy to drink today yet should keep for a decade.
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Wine Enthusiast
A hint of tar accompanies aromatic notions of chocolate and cherry on the nose of this wine. The palate comes in with velvety crunch and sumptuously ripe fruit, shot through with freshness, underlining the ripeness of 2018.
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Wine & Spirits
This concentrated Savigny has just enough oak presence to give a sense of luxury. It may capture your attention like an elegant peasant, one who’s come into riches, buzzing with energy, serious in tone. The tannins are earthy and vegetal, holding the richness to a dry savor.
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.”
Savigny-lès-Beaune is a small village near Beaune that produces delightful red and white wines under its own appellation name. Cut by a river, the vineyards on its southern side have sandy soils that result in charming, floral reds. Premiers Crus vineyards on this side include Les Peuillets, Les Narbantons, Les Rouvrettes and Les Marconnets.
On Savigny’s northern side, bordering Pernand-Vergelles, vineyards are planted on rocky soils and produce juicy and spicy Pinot Noir. The village’s best whites, all made of Chardonnay, are full on the palate and abound in texture, complexity and freshness.