Beaune Rouge Clos des Renardes Fanny Sabre 2020

Beaune Clos de Renardes Fanny Sabre, natural wine, 100% Pinot Noir.  This is a classic example of naturally made Pinot Noir from the noble Beaune appellation. Silky organic Pinot, textured and nuanced, fresh and elegant but with underlying depth.  When you drink wine like Clos de Renardes, you understand why Burgundy wines are so expensive.  They manage to reach a place that other regions don’t.  They manage to illicit such delicacy and taught precision from Pinot Noir.  These are wines which endure and fascinate.  The newer vintages deserve a little cellaring although young Burgundy is also delicious in our view.

The Fanny Sabre domaine is located in Pommard and is just 4.

5 hectares in size. Fanny makes over a dozen different cuvee so quantities of any of the wines are very low. She took over from her father who started the domaine in the eighties and learned from the help of natural wine guru Philippe Pacalet (famous for his work at Domaine Prieuré Roch) who guided her for the first few years. She works totally naturally using organic farming, wild yeast, concrete and wood for fermentation and virtually never chaptalises unless it is absolutely necessary. Her red wines are seamless, classic, dry but with a core of sweet fruit and a texture like pure velvet. The whites are very, very fresh and the oak is so well integrated, you simply don't know it's there. The Meursault produced in minute quantity which vanishes extremely quickly is as crisp as a Sancerre in youth but has the potential for majesty if it ever makes to maturity, a wine to cellar and savour after 10 years.