Belland Santenay 1er Beauregard blanc 2019

Roger and Julie Belland are 5th and 6th generation growers in Santenay – their wines are perennial favorites among our readers, offering early drinking and friendly pricetags. Belland’s 2019s are magnificent, as classy and supple as anything they’ve produced.

The 2019 Beauregard blanc has good freshness to support its ripe fruit, a mix of orchard and citrus. The oak trails the assertive fruit at this stage, but the two should knit together soon. Though the wine is ripe, it is not the least flat or flabby, and should provide much enjoyment over the next five years or so. Morris found “a chiseled backbone,” and “just the right degree of flesh.”