Domaine Chandon de Briailles Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Ile de Vergelesses 2011 SF Chronicle - Past Pick and bottled unfiltered

and bottled unfiltered

all of it done properly

fresh citrus

Piquette is a low-alcohol slightly spritzy wine made from the second pressings of grape pomace

making this simultaneously modern and classically structured

Domaine Chandon de Briailles Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Ile de Vergelesses 2011 SF Chronicle - Past Pick and bottled unfilteredIle des Vergelesses is widely considered the Grand Cru of Pernand Vergelesses a long, gentle east facing slope that in great vintages can rival the Cortons for complexity. Chandon de Briailles farms it biodynamically and ferments with whole clusters, the house signature, and the wine is now fourteen years from vintage and drinking gorgeously. This is mature Burgundy at its most rewarding: the fruit has turned to dried red cherry and rose petal, the