2024 Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Les Fichots, Les Horées

2024 Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Les Fichots, Les Horées

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This is a highpoint in the Horées cellar, which now has more backbone than in the early vintages. It should have the longest drinking window of the 2024s, and while most of Catharina’s wine drink so well from youth, I’d urge patience for this one. It has a superb, floral acidity, combining weightless flow with real intensity. Only two barrels made in 2024.

Critic score
90/100 info

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Wine details

  • Region & country
    Les Fichots (1er Cru), Pernand-Vergelesses, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, France
  • Grape
    Pinot Noir
  • Maturity
    Young 2028 - 2038info
  • Colour
    Red
  • Sweetness
    Dry
  • Style
    Still
  • Unit Volume
    Bottle (75cl.)
  • ABV
    13%

Tasting notes

Catharina’s team now do all the work except ploughing. A darker ruby, plenty of fruit in a firmer idiom. Fifty-year-old vines, still vigorous, 60% whole bunch, not evident on the nose but really freshens up the palate. Racy alpine strawberry. Vinification could be done without sulphur which shows the health of the grapes. Drink from 2028-2032. Tasted Oct 2025.

Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy (December 2025)
89—91/100
Les Horées

German-born, trained chef Catharina Sadde has one of Burgundy’s most impressive CVs. Her fearless determination to succeed, despite being a relative newcomer in Burgundy, has seen her estate’s reputation rocket. She now makes some of the region’s most sought-after wines. Her skills were honed with stints at Domaine de la Romanée Conti, Domaine Comte Armand, Marquis d’Angerville, and Cécile Tremblay, having graduated from Germany’s most prestigious wine school, Geisenheim. Les Horées is the culmination of a decade of fine tuning her winemaking skills, buying up vineyards that she loves, and working closely with a few other grape growers who share her philosophy. She now works from her cellars in Beaune, has a penchant for the lesser-known Burgundy varieties, Aligoté and Gamay, alongside Chardonnay and Pinot Noir and is an enthusiastic practitioner of biodynamic farming.

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