A darkish translucent ruby in the glass. This is a glass from a bottle I opened on Sunday - I was impressed then with the freshness, cut and vibrancy of both the fruit & acidity. With the passage of several days, the nose has started developing secondary nuances, with forest floor and an alluring spiciness to the fruit being front and center.
Softer on the palate today, but the red fruits are still framed by adequate acidity. I think this wine will be capable of aging quite nicely over the next 15 years, but it’s possible to enjoy it today if you like your pinot noir young.
Thanks for taking one for the team, Bob. Do you know if this is a domaine wine or negociant? I don’t think I have ever seen Jadot Greves rouge, although they do make white wine there from a domaine plot.
Thanks, Bob; I mopped up a small lot of these on close-out a couple of years ago and have been maintaining discipline so far. Maybe time to try one for learning purposes.
I seem to remember reading somewhere (here?) that Lardiere likes to drink old red Beaune Greves as an after-dinner wine.
I also picked up some 2005 Potel Beaune Greves; would be interesting to do a comparison.
The Kobrand site shows the Greves on the plain Louis Jadot label - no ‘Heritiers’ or ‘Gagey.’ Is this enough info to tell whether the grapes are domaine-grown or bought in?
Bob, you’re braver than I am. Every day or two I pull something from the cellar, glance at some 05 Burgs and repeat the well-worn internal mantra about how much better they’ll be in 3, 5 or 10 years. Heck, I’m still waiting for some 05 Bourgogne’s to develop.
Had a bottle last summer that a friend bought while we were on vacation. He was so proud of having found a grand cru Burgundy I didn’t have the heart to tell him he should put it away for a few years. As feared, that bottle was closed tight. I have 3 or 4 bottles and probably won’t try one for at least 5 more years. Glad yours was drinking OK.
My impression was that the Greves is Domaine. I tasted almost the entire 2005 Jadot Beaune lineup about 3 years ago and they were really backward (as one would expect) at that time. I had thought that maybe Jadot (or Lardiere) had changed the style, but I guess not.
Generally that is enough, but there are exceptions. I have seen, for example, both domaine and negociant labels for Pommard Rugiens. But I think this wine, with that label on the website, is probably bought in.
Inside Burgundy by Jasper Morris does not have Jadot as owning any Greves. Great Domaines of Burgundy by Norman/Taylor has Gagey entity owning Chardonnay vines in “Les Greves le Clos” but does not specify that any Jadot entity ownes any red Greves. So its likey bought grapes.
FWIW, NSG Boudots is another vineyard that Jadot does both a domaine and negociant version of.
Yeah, Berry, that is a biggie. One needs to be very careful when ordering Jadot Boudots prearrival or without seeing the bottles, if you care about getting the domaine wine.
On the Jadot web site, it looks like the Greves under Gagey is a blanc, not the rouge. And I see no mention of a Greves Rouge in Beaune as Jadot (I thought I remembered this from the map they give you when you visit). But there is a Jadot Corton Greves…
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