Louis Jadot Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru 2018
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A powerful perfume of violets and red berries leads to fruity richness on a palate laced with subtle tannins. This wine will develop for 15 to 20 years in the bottle.
Pair with delicate, sauced red meat dishes and most cheeses.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2018 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru (Domaine Louis Jadot) offers up a deep bouquet of raspberries, wild berries, ripe cherries, dark chocolate and rose petals. On the palate, it's full-bodied, layered and concentrated, with succulent acids, fine-grained structuring tannins and a long, mineral finish.
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This red is lush and boisterous, centering around voluptuous black cherry and blackberry fruit. It's backed by a layer of beefy tannins and focused by its vibrant acidity. A mouthwatering finish, laced with earth and spice, lingers. Best from 2025 through 2045.
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Grown in Jadot’s 0.67-acre parcel on the Chambolle side of the cru, this wine shows the heat of 2018 in its sup-ple blueberry richness. But that ripe fruit recedes over the course of a week to reveal the structure of a long-lived Burgundy. The concentration of its tannins might come from the portion of the vines on Bonnes-Mares’s terre brune, framing a deep well of fruit, while the terres blanches from further up the hill could be credited for the floral elements. A lively back-and-forth between these terroir expressions develops resonance with air, growing more closely knit. This is a wine in the process of becoming, given youthful energy by the warm season, riveting in clarity and focus.
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Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
While Morey-St-Denis of Burgundy might not get the same attention as its neighbors, Gevrey-Chambertin to the north and Chambolle-Musigny to the south, there is no reason why it shouldn’t. The same line of limestone runs from the Combe de Lavaux in Gevrey—all the way through Morey—ending in Chambolle.
There are four grand cru vineyards, moving southwards from the border with Gevrey-Chambertin: Clos de la Roche, Clos St-Denis, Clos des Lambrays, Clos de Tart and a small segment of Bonnes-Mares overlapping from Chambolle. Clos de la Roche is probably the finest vineyard, giving wines of true depth, body, and sturdiness for the long haul than most other vineyards.
Pinot Noir from Morey-St-Denis is known for its deep red cherry, blackcurrant and blueberry fruit. Aromas of spice, licorice and purple flowers are present in the wines’ youth, evolving to forest and game as the wine ages.