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.
“Les Blanches Fleurs” is a premier cru vineyard in Beaune, just south of Clos du Roi, where marl and limestone soils meet a warm, south-facing exposure. Often considered a lighter cru, it shows pinot noir with surprising depth and nuance when handled with care—something Chanterêves has in spades. Fermented with 100% whole clusters and aged over two winters in used oak and stainless steel, this is pinot noir at once lifted and layered.
The 2024 growing season demanded careful work, but the site's natural freshness and the whole-cluster approach produced a wine of striking delicacy and airy charm: cherry blossom, red cherry, and a mineral lift on fine, silky tannins.
