Domaine Jacques Prieur Beaune Premier Cru Grèves (small pebbles) is a Pinot Noir aged entirely in oak for 17 months prior to release. Deep crimson in colour, with a cherry rim, this offers red and black fruit and stony minerals on the nose and palate, fresh and aromatic with a heady array of violet and rose, allied to morello cherries the perfume sustained throughout a long, elegant finish.
The vineyards of Domaine Jacques Prieur encompass so many of Burgundy's greatest grands crus; Le Chambertin, Clos de Bèze, Le Musigny, Clos de Vougeot, Echézeaux, Corton-Bressandes, Corton-Charlemagne, Chevalier Montrachet and Le Montrachet, as well as a host of premiers...
The wine region of Burgundy provides a multitude of different appellations and vineyards split between numerous individual owners, each with varying degrees of competence and experience. Thus buying and enjoying Burgundy can appear to be a complex and exasperating process for wine consumers. However, for fervent admirers...
Pinot Noir is a noble red wine grape variety that is difficult to grow, but in the right place and under the right climatic conditions it can produce the most delicious in taste, richest and velvety smooth wines in the world....
