Vincent Girardin Santenay 'Le Beaurepaire' Premier Cru 2024
4.5
HK$550
750ml
Bottle
Vintage Character Vincent Girardin Santenay 'Le Beaurepaire' Premier Cru 2024 is a white Burgundy from the Santenay Premier Cru appellation at the southern end of the Côte de Beaune. The 2024 vintage was shaped by a challenging growing season with frost and disease pressure that lowered yields, often concentrating fruit and making the best sites especially rewarding for attentive growers. Le Beaurepaire is noted for its limestone-rich slopes in Santenay, a terroir that gives Chardonnay a distinctive combination of ripe orchard fruit, brisk acidity, and a chalky, finely etched mineral line.
Tasting Profile & Food Pairing On the nose, this wine typically shows lemon zest, green apple, white peach, and white flowers, with subtle hints of hazelnut, fresh pastry, and light oak spice. The palate is dry and layered, balancing a rounded texture from lees contact with vibrant acidity and a saline, stony precision that carries through a persistent finish. Its style suits dishes such as roast chicken with herbs, Dover sole in beurre blanc, or seared scallops with cauliflower purée.
Winery Background Maison Vincent Girardin was founded in 1980 and has become one of Burgundy’s most respected négociant-éleveur houses, known for transparent, site-specific wines. Since 2002, Eric Germain has guided the cellar toward a more restrained, terroir-focused style, with careful vineyard work, hand-harvesting where applicable, and a strong preference for purity over excess richness. Fermentations and élevage are handled with measured use of oak and extended lees aging to preserve detail and texture, a philosophy that has made the house especially admired for mineral, finely tuned white Burgundies.