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.
Corton-Bressandes is an east-facing grand cru at 250 meters on the Corton hill, with shallow, very gravelly topsoil and excellent drainage, producing wines of remarkable concentration and structure from vines planted in the late 1950s. The grapes are sourced from a grower farming organically, though without certification, and vinified with the full rigor of the Chanterêves red protocol. Fruit is fermented as 100% whole cluster in wooden vats with a pied de cuve, with foot punch-downs only near the end of cuvaison, then aged ten to twelve months in used barrels followed by a further period on the fine lees in stainless steel. No fining, no filtration.
The 2024 vintage was demanding, and the gravelly soils of Bressandes rewarded the patience it required: dark cherry, iron, dried tarragon, and a deep mineral persistence on a structured frame of fine, grippy tannins. Hold through the late 2020s and beyond.
