Louis Jadot - Clos St. Denis Domaine Gagey 2016

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The Clos Saint Denis is a very old vineyard which used to belong to the church of Saint Denis from Vergy, founded in 1203 in the castle of Vergy. The vineyard is South-East oriented. The soil is made of clay and limestone together with iron and marls. Destemmed grapes ferment in vats during 3 to 4 weeks. Aging takes place in oak barrels produced by our cooperage Cadus during 18 months.

Louis Jadot Description

Founded in 1859, by Louis Henry Denis Jadot, he was the first of his family to arrive in Beaune from Belgium in 1794 and soon began purchasing Premier and Grand Cru vineyards in Burgundy. With grape growing a part of his heritage, Louis Henry set about gaining experience first in the cellars, in the evaluation of wines, and then in the vineyards, in the study of viticulture. The house of Louis Jadot has grown through a long-term policy of acquisition or management of exceptional vineyard lands and currently owns 528 acres of vineyards, including nearly 280 acres of the Cote d’Or’s most prestigious Premier and Grand Cru plots. In Burgundy’s Côte d’Or, where the integrity of the producer is often more important than a renowned appellation or vineyard, Maison Louis Jadot is one of the most venerable, most trusted and revered wine houses.

Wine Advocate: 93-95 Points

The 2016 Clos Saint-Denis Grand Cru has a clean and pure bouquet with ample smoke-tinged blackberry and raspberry fruit, controlled and focused, the mineral scents emerging with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with filigree tannin, plenty of dusky red fruit laced with graphite, although it deserves more complexity and detail to come through on the finish. That may come with time. It is not up there with the outstanding 2015 but it is still extremely fine.

A View from the Cellar: 94 Points

The 2016 Clos St. Denis is another stellar bottle in the making from this outstanding vintage. The bouquet is pure, perfumed and youthfully complex, offering up a fine constellation of red plums, cherries, mustard seed, gamebird, coffee, cedar, glorious soil tones and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and vibrant, with a sappy core, great transparency, fine-grained tannins and a very, very long, reserved and nascently complex finish. This will need a good decade more of bottle age to start to stir, but it is going to be a superb wine when it is ready to drink.

Vinous: 92-95 Points

Stephen Tanzer, Vinous: "Healthy medium red. Pristine aromas of cherry, rose petal, red licorice and crushed stone. Compellingly savory, sharply delineated wine with serious power--even a bit youthfully aggressive for Clos Saint-Denis. Firm acidity and a solid stony underpinning give this wine a seriously penetrating quality, with its juicy flavors of crunchy red fruits, spices, minerals and flavors conveying razor-sharp focus. A real essence of 2016 in its combination of aromatic lift, definition and delicacy, this compelling Clos Saint-Denis finishes with superb length and thrust. (I will wait to taste the Clos de la Roche in bottle as my sample in January was seriously reduced and in need of a racking.)" 01/18