Chanterêves is the project of husband and wife Tomoko Kuriyama and Guillaume Bott, founded in Savigny-lès-Beaune in 2010 after careers at Etienne Sauzet, Simon Bize, and Weingut Altenkirch. Both trained in oenology—Tomoko in Germany, Guillaume in Burgundy—and met during harvest at Simon Bize, where their shared instinct for purity and restraint became the foundation of everything that followed. "We both like purity and elegance," Tomoko has said. They make wine by infusion rather than extraction, letting the fruit steep gently in its own juice; as The Feiring Line put it, wines of infusion "wash over you like a breeze instead of a heat blast." In 2020 they acquired 4.9 hectares of their own vines across Savigny, Chorey, and the Hautes Côtes de Beaune, and what began as a négoce has grown into one of the Côte de Beaune's most closely watched domaines.
Miarlons du Bas sits on a steep slope above Les Monts de Fussey and just below Mainbey, planted in 1980 with organically and biodynamically farmed vines. The soils are stony and limestone-rich, the pitch of the slope contributing to the wine's characteristic nerve and precision. Vinification follows the house white protocol: crushed with a six-hour press cycle, indigenous yeast fermentation with a pied de cuve, aged twelve months in 228L and 600L used barrels, no fining, with occasional light filtration and minimal sulfur.
The 2024 vintage was cool and challenging; yields were low and selection rigorous. In the glass, the wine is taut and saline: waves of lemon zest, white peach, and a mineral thread that carries through a long finish.
