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.

The grapes for this Corton-Charlemagne come from En Charlemagne, a lieu-dit on the mid western slope of the Corton hill above Pernand-Vergelesses, farmed biodynamically and plowed by horse by a grower whom Guillaume and Tomoko consider among the finest vignerons of the Côte. The western exposition means a slower, cooler ripening profile than Corton-Charlemagne from the more common southern and southeastern expositions, therefore a site that favors precision and aromatic lift over early weight. Vinification proceeds as with all Chanterêves whites: six-hour press cycle, indigenous yeasts, ten to twelve months in used barrels followed by further aging on the fine lees in stainless steel.

The 2024 is tightly wound and deeply mineral: hazelnut, acacia blossom, and a core of wet stone on a long, slowly unfolding finish that will reward time in the cellar through the early 2030s and beyond.