Winemaker Notes
Serve with game, meats, mushroom dishes and strong cheeses.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
There’s a very seamless feel here. Aromas of wild red cherries and gentle, sappy sous bois, as well as fresh mushrooms and spicy, sweet-smelling earth and lightly smoky notes. The palate delivers a very long, powerful and weighty impression. Shows great depth and real power. Finishes with real prowess.
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Wine Spectator
Well-marked by spicy oak, this muscular red boasts cherry, plum, licorice and violet flavors. The beefy tannins lend an angularity now, with a lingering finish of oak, spice and mineral. This is just getting started and will need several years to peak. Best from 2023 through 2048.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2015 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Clos Saint-Jacques is one of the more reticent cuvées in the Jadot portfolio in the 2015 vintage, but its superb quality is more than apparent. Notes of red and black cherries, dark berries, wood smoke and peony mingle in a lovely bouquet, introducing a full-bodied, multidimensional wine with excellent depth, concentration and energy, structured around a firm chassis of tannin which is already beginning to assert itself and which will need a good decade in the cellar to melt away. Built for the long haul, this is an excellent Clos Saint-Jacques, but one which will really demand patience from its purchasers.
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.