Domaine Georges Noëllat – Vosne-Romanée Premier Cru Les Chaumes 2014 – Burgundy France

Les Chaumes lies at the southern end of Vosne, below Malconsorts. Bettane & Desseauve gave this 17 out of 20, singling out its texture and the salinity that runs through everything Maxime Cheurlin makes.

🍷 At a Glance

• Grape: 100% Pinot Noir
• Appellation: Vosne-Romanée Premier Cru Les Chaumes
• Region: Côte de Nuits, Burgundy
• Vintage: 2014
• Producer: Domaine Georges Noëllat
• Winemaker: Maxime Cheurlin
• Estate: Around 5.5 hectares across Vosne-Romanée and northern Nuits-Saint-Georges, on clay-limestone; some vines over a hundred years old
• Vinification: Hand-harvested and sorted, cold maceration, native yeasts, very little punching down
• Ageing: French oak, with new wood from 30% to 100% depending on the appellation
• Serving temperature: 15–17°C
• Style: Dry red wine

👃 Tasting Notes & Experience

• Color: Bright, medium-deep ruby
• Nose: Red fruit and spice with floral lift
• Palate: Wonderful texture with finesse, and remarkable intensity for the cru
• Structure: Fine tannins, gently handled
• Finish: Long, with the domaine's characteristic salinity heightened here

This is a domaine that effectively did not exist in the market for twenty years: from 1990 to 2010 the entire production was sold to Louis Jadot and Joseph Drouhin. Maxime Cheurlin took over at twenty in 2010, having trained at Gros Frère et Soeur and at Emmanuel Rouget, his cousins' domaine, and he is a nephew of the Jayer family besides. His winemaking is unhurried — a cold soak, native yeasts, almost no pigeage, and oak calibrated site by site. Chaumes, which sits at the Nuits end of Vosne, is the cuvée where his emphasis on texture and salinity shows most clearly.

❤️ Why We Love It

• 17/20 from Bettane & Desseauve for this exact vintage
• From an estate whose wines went into Jadot and Drouhin bottles for two decades
• Eleven bottles

🍽️ Food Pairing Ideas

• Roast poultry, duck and game birds
• Mushrooms, truffle and root vegetables
• Aged Comté and washed-rind cheeses

👤 Who This Wine Is For

✓ Drinkers who value texture and salinity over sheer power
✓ Anyone wanting into this domaine below Beaux Monts pricing
✕ Not ideal if you want a big, dense Vosne

17/20, Bettane & Desseauve.