Louis Jadot Gevrey-Chambertin Clos St. Jacques Premier Cru 2016

Professional Ratings

• 96 Wine Spectator
  Perfumed and spicy, exuding sandalwood, tobacco, black cherry and black currant aromas. On the palate, the sweet spice notes wrap around a core of fruit detail, while the dusty tannins line the long, bracing, mineral-infused aftertaste. Best from 2023 through 2045.
• 94 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  The 2016 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Clos Saint-Jacques has a satisfying bouquet with quite luxuriant kirsch and cranberry scents, vanilla and wilted rose petals. It wants to show the other premier crus who is boss. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, quite lush in the mouth, plenty of roundeur here with a sleek red cherry and wild strawberry finish, almost confit-like in style. Great length even if maybe it does not quite deliver the panache of last year's Clos Saint-Jacques.
  Barrel Sample: 92-94
• 93 Decanter
  The Clos St-Jacques is excellent, offering up an incipiently complex bouquet of red and black fruit, bonfire, rich soil, subtle grilled meat and a framing of new oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied and deep at the core, its fine-grained chassis of rich tannins nicely cloaked in cool fruit. Serious and complete, this should develop very well in the cellar.
• 90 Wine & Spirits

  In 1985, Louis Jadot acquired a parcel of this premier cru, formerly owned by Domaine Clair-Dau. Jadot owns the middle section, a strip from the base to the top, where half of the vines were planted in 1957, the other half in ’72. Those vines consistently produce a long-lived Gevrey, this one starting its life with floral notes, lasting on the soft richness and gentle tannins of wild strawberries and their seeds.