2006 Micro Cuvée Beaune 'Montée Rouge' Charles de Valliére ( White wine ) The white wines from Beaune are soft, rich and very fresh. Their power places them among the greatest, close to Chassagne-Montrachet. ---------------------------------------------------------- Burgundy wines built their reputation throughout the 20th century on two main grape varieties : In white, the Chardonnay grape variety, a true terroir sponge, manages to transcribe with great emotion the clay-limestone terroirs of Burgundy. The soils with a majority of limestone are dedicated to the cultivation of this grape variety which, from the limestone, draws notes of lemon, citrus fruits, stone, which the clay, often present, densifies and comforts in the mouth. Burgundy whites are also marked by styles of vinification: the barrels bringing fat, butter, which is never a note of terroir, and aging in a reducing environment bringing fine toasted notes, which many amateurs often associate, wrongly, with notes of terroir.