Winemaker Notes
This rich, sumptuous wine has an extraordinary balance of power and elegance. The finely wrought texture finishes with lingering notes of berries and oak. This wine will improve in the bottle for 20 to 25 years.
Serve with sophisticated dishes such as meat in sauce, game and strong cheeses.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
So elegant, rich and balanced, walking the line between generous and structured, it is pleasing from the first sniff of rose petals, violets and baked cherries to the full body and expansive fruit flavors that expand on the palate and linger in the finish. It’s a beauty, tempting to drink now but best from 2029.
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Wine Spectator
Though broad and firmly structured, this red features focused aromas and flavors of cherry, currant, sandalwood, tobacco and stone. Quickly tightens up, with the dense, refined tannins applying grip and supporting the lengthy aftertaste. Beautifully balanced, this just needs time to knit together. Best from 2030 through 2050. 25 cases imported.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Chambertin Clos de Bèze Grand Cru (Domaine Louis Jadot) has turned out beautifully, wafting from the glass with aromas of dark berries and cherries mingled with subtle hints of peony, mint, exotic spices and loamy soil. Full-bodied, ample and fleshy, with a creamy core of fruit, lively acids and sweet, melting tannins, this sumptuous, enveloping wine is one of the high points of the range.
Barrel Sample: 94-96
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.”
This small village is home to the Grands Crus in the farthest northerly stretches of Côte de Nuits and is famous for some of the deepest and firmest Burgundian Pinot Noir.
Gevrey boasts nine Grands Crus, the best of which are arguably Le Chambertin and Chambertin-Clos de Bèze. As with all of the fragmented vineyards of Burgundy, it isn’t easy to differentiate between the two, which are situated adjacent with Clos de Bèze slightly further up the hill than Le Chambertin. Clos de Bèze has a shallower soil and if you’re really counting, may produce wines less intense but more likely to charm. Some compare Le Chambertin in both power and plentitude only to the prized Romanée-Conti Grand Cru farther south in Vosne-Romanée.
Two other Grands Crus vineyards, Mazis-Chambertin (also written Mazy-) and Latricières-Chambertin command almost as much regard as Le Chambertin and Chambertin-Clos de Bèze. The upper part of Mazy, called Les Mazis Haut is the best and Latricières-Chambertin offers an abundance of juicy fruit and a silky texture in the warmer vintages.
Other Grands Crus are Ruchottes-Chambertin, Charmes-Chambertin, Mazoyères-Chambertin, Griotte-Chambertin and Chapelle-Chambertin.
The most respected Pinot Noir wines from Gevrey-Chambertin are robust and powerful but at the same time, velvety and expressive: black fruit, black liquorice and chocolate come into play. After some time in the bottle, the wines are harmonious with bright and sometimes candied fruit, and aromas of musk, truffle and forest floor. These have staying power.