Winemaker Notes
Bright red berry aromas and flavors lead this vivacious wine. It will develop in the bottle for 7 to 10 years.
This versatile red wine will pair well with light red or white meat dishes and fowl. The more mature wine will complement highly flavored sauces.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2020 Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru La Dominode (Domaine Louis Jadot) is excellent, offering up aromas of raspberries and plums mingled with sweet spices, woodsmoke and raw cocoa. Medium to full-bodied, velvety and concentrated, with lively acids and a long, penetrating finish, it's seamless and complete. It's another fine rendition of a cuvée that's regularly among the domaine's high points.
Barrel Sample: 92-94 -
Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2020 Domaine Louis Jadot Savigny-les-Beaune La Dominode Premier Cru is aromatic and pleasing. TASTING NOTES: This wine exhibits aromas and flavors of juicy berries and dried earth. Enjoy it with an oven-roast, lightly-spiced Porchetta. (Tasted: February 2, 2022, San Francisco, CA)
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.”
Savigny-lès-Beaune is a small village near Beaune that produces delightful red and white wines under its own appellation name. Cut by a river, the vineyards on its southern side have sandy soils that result in charming, floral reds. Premiers Crus vineyards on this side include Les Peuillets, Les Narbantons, Les Rouvrettes and Les Marconnets.
On Savigny’s northern side, bordering Pernand-Vergelles, vineyards are planted on rocky soils and produce juicy and spicy Pinot Noir. The village’s best whites, all made of Chardonnay, are full on the palate and abound in texture, complexity and freshness.