12/31/2023 - IWFS DC wrote:

December 2023 IWFS dinner at Charlie Palmer Steak

11/23/2023 - ben7210 Likes this wine:

Very mild nose, bright cherries wet stones.
On the palate high acid, medium body, high tannin long finish. Very light touch but balanced. I prefer more fruit.

11/10/2023 - DaleW wrote:

Not quite as bright as a bottle couple months ago, but good. Red plum, cherry, a little coffee. Resolved tannin, balanced acids, good finish. B+/B

5/13/2023 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine:

{Gevrey-Chambertin tasting hosted by Confrerie; bottle bought on release, near perfect fill, sound cork} Short notes - GREAT palate and rich, complex nose. Great showing but not quite as good as the 1997 (95) and 1999 (93-94) Clos St Jacques Jadots but better than the 2008 Bruno Clair Clos de Beze also tasted in the flight (92).

Note uploaded in Sept., had misplaced written notes.

9/1/2023 - PANYC Likes this wine:

A classically mature bottle of Burgundy that provides a great example of what the potential can be. Really enjoyable the beautiful red fruit and mature notes, fully integrated drink up!

8/25/2023 - MicklethePickle Likes this wine:

Popped and poured. Took a full two hours to really begin to show more than just dusty earthy. But now, it is emerging nicely to reveal really pretty red cherry fruit that is continuing to gain intensity my the minute. The lovely translucent ruby showed few signs of age, so I think this has many years ahead of it, getting even better as it goes. Less open in the mouth, still with mostly earthy fruit, this is still attractive. Once it opens fully in a few years' time, I bet this will show as well in the mouth as it does on the nose. 4-13-15-9: 91/100.

8/25/2023 - Mag357 Likes this wine:

Gevrey Masterclass @Sommcellars. Kudos to the Team @Somm to find this bottle to show how old school winemaking delivers after a long snooze time in the cellar. Chalk inflected nose with a hint of mature fruit, brown sugar and wood, red fruits followed by very good textures and good depth, perfect balance between acidity and sweetness with uber polished tannins, ending in a long, complex and mineral inflected finish.

7/24/2023 - talbot61 Likes this wine:

Boston Wine & Poker, Lincoln, Mass.: A terrific, incisive wine -- my favorite in a very strong line-up. High-intensity, with a lot of beautifully integrated acidity. It tastes mature but with no sign of old age.

7/13/2023 - DaleW wrote:

2000s were drinking well for a long time, and on initial pour I thought I had waited too long on this. I thought I got a hint of maderization and color seemed to have a little brown. But color brightened and so did the wine. Red cherries, espresso, and Earl grey tea, fully resolved tannin, good acids, tangy finish. If it had been blind I doubt I’d have guessed Gevrey, but lovely mature wine in an elegant red fruited more CdB style. B+

6/29/2023 - TheFoodieTraveler Likes this wine:

Good/in the window now, might smooth out even more in a a couple years

4/23/2023 - Nikjelleren wrote:

Registered med feil årgang

4/9/2023 - beachbum wrote:

delish, i bought on futures and this was really nice tonight, not showing any hints of brown, it got stronger as it sat open, a lovely gevry meat nose, cherry and earthy sweaty leather flavours, not completely integrated so i think this wine still will change, no harm drinking today… y uh m!!

3/16/2023 - TheFoodieTraveler wrote:

A bit rustic but enjoyable. Better on day 2 actually, smoothed out. Good QPR.

3/2/2023 - TNevers Likes this wine:

Black and red fruit, with good structure and bit of acidity. Got progressively better as the night wore on. Excellent effort for a tricky vintage, still plenty of life left.

2/10/2023 - Taffi Likes this wine:

Vil nok kunne holde seg fint i fem år til, men drikker fint i dag 👍

12/1/2021 - Nanda wrote:

Tasting at Domaine Louis Jadot w/ Frederic: A step up in integration and energy as we get into "the Jacques". Love the silkiness of tannin. More refined than the prior wines. 92-93

11/16/2022 - rocknroller wrote:

A Little Bit of France at Spoon (Spoon & Stable, Mpls, MN): Medium red color. Decanted for 90 minutes; drank a glass plus over 90 minutes. Just a lovely bottle of ESJ showing the vintage character. Open and filled with Gevrey spices; baking spice, spiced red currants, wafting red rose aromas, and sous bois on the nose. The palate has that touch of sauvage, tart cherry, spiced red currants, ferrous minerality, medium bodied with round tannins and a whisp of vanilla extract on the finish. 93+ to 94pts.

11/16/2022 - minndavid60 Likes this wine:

As per usual, I’ll defer detailed notes to rocknroller but will say I really enjoyed this. Sweet red fruits, minerals and bits of sous bois. Gave this 90 minutes of decant at home. All 5 of us enjoyed this with Spoon and Stable’s Pheasant Breast w/ Wild Rice Porridge on the occasion of Spoon’s 8th birthday.

8/8/2022 - jamesabdavis wrote:

Very pretty nose: earth pepper, raspberry/blueberry fruit, developing a touch of menthol, liquorice.
Mid-weight elegant palate with good depth, dusty tannins and supported by fresh acidity.
Finishes fresh and persistent.
This is delicious and notably complex.

8/5/2022 - KeithAkers wrote:

I poured some of this off, into a glass to come back to it later. This really opened up after a few hours of air as it leaned more into the sour side of the fruits with sour cherries, tart raspberries, cranberries, cracked pepper, tobacco leaf, earth tones, dark spices, and violets. There is good depth with this taking on a more perfumed take. The Medium bodied feel is balanced but with a robustness along with tart, medium+ acidity and silky, medium tannins. The acidity still has a bit of sting, but the feel is showing some layering and depth. This is drinking beautifully right now. There is an attractive sourness to it that shines through across the nose and palate.

6/23/2022 - Burgundy Al wrote:

Jadot Cellar Visit and Tasting (Beaune): Ripe black fruit with roasted game notes, this shows some baby fat for now, but also dense concentration juxtaposed with firm structure. So much ere, but this needs cellar time to harmonize. Better today vs when tasted in late 2021, 91-92 point potential, 2030 forward.

5/21/2022 - Burgundy Al wrote:

Drinking Burgundy with Friends (House of Nanda - Chicago IL): Double blind, clearly mature Burgundy. Black and red cherry, earth and faint meatiness, I thought this a very good Beaune or Pommard 1er Cru, thinking it 2001 given seemingly moderate degree of ripeness. Very good now.

5/17/2022 - Milos Likes this wine:

Forward nose of dark cherry and currant with mineral notes. Palate is well balanced, rich, quite viscous. Dry fine tannins lurk in the background. Long finish. Drinking well now.

12/12/2021 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine:

{Bought on release, perfect fill, same case as bottle described a year ago} Sensational, still fairly red color without a browning rim. Earthy, Gevrey-Chambertin nose a bit reticent to start, lots of depth and complexity that took a good 3 hours to bloom. Both red and black fruits present, some griottes cherries too, hints of earth and tobacco, something animal as well. Very savory and long palate presence; medium weight yet feels quite full. Fine tannins. To use a phrase am seeing more of, it "kicks on" with additional layers of complexity over time.

Plus it's just delicious.

Comments by Miadelt, BillyT, Fijole, Mistress of Wine seem quite accurate. Best vintage of this wine I can recall, and I think I have not sufficiently appreciated the merits of this vineyard in the past.

11/10/2021 - Burgundy Al wrote:

Wednesday Cellar Visits in Burgundy - Louis Jadot, Faiveley, and Bernard Moreau (Cote d'Or): Tasted at Jadot, alongside Poissenots. Ripe black cherry and berry with a fun, sweet core. Fleshy start, more firm and classically Gevrey from middle through finish. I prefer this flight vs the previous one. 89-91 point potential.

9/25/2021 - vinkeger wrote:

Floral og vakker nese. Oser av mørkerød frukt, roser. Nydelig fatbruk. Elegant. Delikat munnfølelse. Lettvekter med subtile tanniner. Nydelig konsentrasjon og lengde. Høy kvalitet.

10/19/2021 - dajapino Likes this wine:

Agree with previous taster, in a perfect place...this is why nothing beats burgundy.

8/30/2021 - Roentgen Ray wrote:

Reddish garnet color.
Cork was saturated and soft.
Keft in bottle to breathe.
Funky at first.
After 30-60 minutes it was improved.
Raspberry, spuce, a little floral in the nose.
Tannins started offdry and rough but smoothed out with a little air.
Decent, not great.

7/12/2021 - fizz wrote:

Shiny core of red fruits, with crushed autumn leaves and river pebbles. Finesse and detail here. Light to medium bodied, with fine, silty tannins. Persistent. Acid could be a little prominent for some. Showed well over 3 nights.

6/2/2021 - prg435 Likes this wine:

Certainly drinking well. Acid & fruit are there. Tannins have integrated well.

Dominant red fruits of cherry & strawberry. Notes of cola and spice. Hint of truffle, but barely there. No typical tertiary aromas of note, so it does have some maturation left but I don't think a ton.

However, nobody should be disappointed to enjoy now.

6/2/2021 - melzar wrote:

This wine is really singing to me. Drinking at peak now, but will hold for a few more years. Tannin fully resolved, leaving behind, the gorgeous fruit. Well balanced, elegant mature Burgundy.

5/17/2021 - Willi Vinotti Likes this wine:

The nose is pretty closed despite giving about 2h of time in the glass, on the palate, this GC is more open for business, but not fully expressing itself at full potential. It has very nice balance and poise, subtle tannins and is a good expression of the terroir. To be seen if it is on the way to close down or to open up.

5/8/2021 - VINNICK wrote:

Needs years of cellaring time and not ready at all. Tasted tight dry austere and ungiving. Didn’t change much on day 2. Would pass on this as it also tastes like mass produced US wine. My least favorite of 6 or so 2015 Burgs I’ve had recently.

2/24/2021 - up4wine wrote:

Wonderfully complex with a good fruit core. This is a wine of nuance and fine aroma.

1/27/2021 - Nanda wrote:

Gevrey Jacques Tasting (Chicago + Zoom): More ready than it's 08 Jadot CSJ counterpart and a more pleasurable wine right now as it shows both richness and depth of flavor. Nice meat and earth complexity. Should hold for 5-10 years, but don't see this getting much better.

1/27/2021 - Burgundy Al wrote:

Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Tasting ("The Jacques") (Chicagoland IL): Very good now, but on the simple side vs the other wines tonight. Good balance and fun/ ready to enjoy now, unlikely further upside.

12/31/2020 - nphase Likes this wine:

Farewell, and good riddance, 2020.: An excellent wine in its own right, but struggled to show next to the same vintage H-N Clos Vougeot. This has a long life left ahead of it.

11/26/2020 - heidoanddave wrote:

Bright, clear red, some flower and spice.

10/28/2020 - ex-sommelier Likes this wine:

Nice evolution as this opened over a few hours. Well defined through lines of minerality, tart cherries, honeycomb, and flowers. Delicate at first, but fills out with notes of turbinado sugar, smoke, and sagebrush. Palate is also fairly precise and filigreed until it's paired with food. This supercharges with food (braised chicken) showing fuller, meaty texture and intense violet perfume, but also loses some of that elegance.

This had some nice elements, but no fireworks, and the nose is fairly modest. Despite the delicate showing at first it is more than robust enough to stand up to food, and was better for it.

9/16/2020 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine:

{1st of 12 bought on release, professional storage, excellent fill} PopNPour and consumed over 3 hours. Complex, earthy Gevrey aromatics with an initial tart front nose that evolved into rich, warm fruit with substantial depth and a very long finish. At 2 hours, huge plush fruit, almost a confiture at one time or another, with early secondary elements, yet lots of precision and focus. Great, great wine that will age for decades. Rated 92-96 at one time or another. Honestly, have not had a better bottle or vintage of this vineyard; you probably need a Grand Cru vineyard to be substantially better than this wine. Much better than the 1999 or 2002 Jadot Clos St. Jacques.

9/5/2020 - Jd6725 Likes this wine:

Best, most floral and perfumed nose on a burg that I have had in a long time. Drank well too, open for business. My guess is that the palate will improve over 5 years, however may lose a little of this amazing nose. Great fruit, smooth and just starting to develop secondary notes.

Had this in December 2019 and it was almost as good as this bottle, but PNP, we decided to decant the rest and it definitely lost a step or two. Don't decant! Great with 30-60 minutes in glass. Or slow ox a couple hours.

6/21/2020 - rlove wrote:

Pristine bottle but I am still surprised how well this shows, delicate and perfumed with red berry, earthy rosehip, and leather. Supple texture with the few noticeable tannins ripe and elegant. Red fruit is dense but comes across with a harsh tartness, possibly due to acidification. That manipulation aside the 1997 Estournelles St Jacques is quite good.

5/31/2020 - wineappreciation wrote:

Cherry and strawberry, hints of violet; some substance and depth, good balance and structure; pleasing long finish, lovely
After 30 Minutes: somewhat more closed and austere, with some grip, but still pleasing

6/1/2020 - Rieslingfan wrote:

I said three years ago that I would be queuing up my remaining bottles of this wine for near-term drinking. Then plans met reality. Still four more to go after this one, but hopefully similar results. Evolving red fruit and vibrant earth aromas lead into a vibrant palate expression that carries the earthiness through the finish. It's fabulously clean, while also showing a more rustic side of Gevrey than some of the more famous sites. It's hard to reconcile the bit of wildness with the nuance of the flavors. I guess that's just Burgundy - ever a mystery. Not the be all and end all of Burgundy expression, but if I wanted to introduce someone to the joys of aged Burgs, this would not be a bad wine at all to make my case.

4/27/2020 - Gary N Likes this wine:

A reliable PC. Dry tan keeps this from higher score. Lovely nose, and lots of life left.

4/21/2020 - WoodieBayArea wrote:

a very nice ESJ from Jadot... it had loads of '96 character with super hi acidity (which I like) and some red cherry fruit again on the lifted tart side... pounded down after a Chave Hermitage 1998 on my sons birthday (he was born in '98) and this wine was perfect as we weren't likely to enjoy another 'larger' wine for the 2nd btl

4/4/2020 - fitzi wrote:

Slightly corked - just enough to rob it of most of its flavor and all of its aroma.

2/11/2020 - Nanda wrote:

Tasting at Louis Jadot (Beaune): Nice pepper notes to the red fruited aromas. The lightest of the CSJ/LSJ/ESJ trio with a very fresh and acid-driven profile. Nicely balanced and should age well. 90-92

2/23/2020 - aagrawal wrote:

Dinner with the wine group (Millbrae, CA): Light ruby; deeper red fruit, youthful; palate is medium bodied, medium-plus acid, tannins pretty integrated, red fruit; finish is medium length. Good but not a stand out. 90-91

2/22/2020 - jjct Likes this wine:

Pleasantly surprised. Very nice Burgundian pinot.