The 2019 Volnay 1er Cru Clos des Ch?nes (Domaine Louis Jadot) opens in the glass with notes of cherries, red berries, orange rind, raw cocoa and spices. Medium to full-bodied, ample and lively, this was also promisingly tightly wound when I visited, revea...
A new cuvée as a result of a grape exchange, with 35% whole bunch vinification. Fine mid purple, this has an attractive immediate fruit with good density behind, a few wood tannins but certainly a fresh finish. Some dark fruit and liquorice notes come bac...
Aromas of wild berries, smoked meats, orange rind and rich soil tones introduce the 2019 Nuits-Saint-Georges Vieilles Vignes, a medium to full-bodied, layered wine built around powdery tannins and lively acids.
Moderate reduction is enough to overshadow the underlying fruit at present. More interesting are the rich, delicious and beautifully textured and detailed larger-bodied flavors that brim with both minerality and dry extract, all wrapped in a youthfully au...
A timid but perfumed nose speaks of softly spicy ripe red berry aromas where hints of smoke and earth lurk in the background. There is again excellent volume to the succulent and seductive yet equally powerful flavors that flash a bead of minerality on th...
The more inert nature of the holding container is in evidence as the nose is moderately reduced. The other side of that though is that the mouthfeel is even sleeker and finer with excellent underlying tension and detail to the similarly scaled flavors tha...