Santenay 'Les Champs Claudes', Edouard Delaunay, 2023
Santenay 'Les Champs Claudes', Edouard Delaunay, 2023
- White Still
- Chardonnay
- Organic
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The 2023 white wines from Delaunay are beautifully drinkable, offering an easy elegance. Unlike the larger, richer 2022 vintage, 2023 returns to a classic size with a well-balanced acidity, not too high or low. This vintage avoided the intense heat of 2020 and 2022, allowing for a more natural acidity that didn’t degrade during ripening. With record-high yields in both red and white, the wines display a lighter but more elegant profile compared to the previous year's concentration. In particular, the whites show an impressive balance of fresh acidity and racy minerality, with no chaptalisation needed.
"Sourced from the south of Côte de Beaune, this wine benefits from an excellent terroir, providing richness and depth. It has a lovely nose of yellow flowers and honey, with a mineral finish and a good balance of acidity. A wine with complexity and a long, rich finish."
Our note
Overall, the 2023 vintage is a welcome surprise, offering a balance of power and elegance. With a focus on terroir expression, the wines show great ageing potential and freshness, with no over-ripeness or dilution. The whites are bright, fresh, and pure, while the reds show refinement and elegance, with a good structure for future ageing. While some of the wines are still developing, there is much to look forward to in the coming years.
What the critics say:
"Liquorice and bay-leaf cream. Brusque breadth, spruce breath. More fragrance than fruit, although there is a cream of cooked pears and apples folded in by the worn-soft-blunt blade of acidity. Fresh but on the side of curves rather than angles."
"Eight barrels of which one new. Mid lemon yellow, fuller bodied, evidenced even on the nose, does fill the mouth very nicely. It would seem that the picking date was more astute this year than 2022, delivering a certain crispness to the fruit and fine length. Good example. Drink from 2026-2029. Tasted Nov 2024 ****"
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