Chantereves Beaune 1er Cru Les Blanches Fleurs  2024 event-sold-out and a touch of spice

and a touch of spice

delicate fresh herbs

Kimmeridgian-marl slope that many consider Sancerre's finest

delicate rhubarb root

This Acacia bianco is blended from Timorasso (the once-lost local white the region is happily rediscovering) and Rossese Bianco (rarer still)

Chantereves Beaune 1er Cru Les Blanches Fleurs  2024 event-sold-out and a touch of spiceThe name means "white flowers," and this is the softest spoken red in the Chantereves lineup. Les Blanches Fleurs lies on Beaune's gentler lower slope, where deeper soils round Pinot Noir's edges instead of sharpening them. Guillaume Bott and Tomoko Kuriyama don't farm this one they buy the fruit from growers working sustainably, then mostly get out of the way gentle extraction, restrained wood, nothing painted on top. The 2024 is red cherry and rose