2005 Louis Jadot Santenay Clos de Malte

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 87.2 points

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  12/31/2023 - Sperls Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Nice earthy sour cherry with medium weight and medium finish. Great food wine and very strong performance for a village 05 bought for a song.

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  5/22/2022 - MuddyBoots wrote:

  Conspicuously earthy with notes of sour cherry. Hints at Sangiovese even...Gently leafy. Forest floor. Emphatically a wine of the soil. No pretty perfumes or floral tones here. A discrete inner ripeness to the fruit shows on the palate. Perfect dusty tannic presence. Layered finish with some acid grip - just a little abbreviated. There is a certain rugged beauty to this. It is totally honest in representing where it came from. Surely very fine for a Santenay Village and a great value. Needs food. Just about ready. Bought on release. Next day - a little more textured on the palate, less sour cherry - more pinot. Suggesting we should wait.

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  10/16/2020 - collin wrote:

  Quick note- this came out on the high end of what I expected from my last note. Finally drinking well!

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  5/13/2019 - lake.vino Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Showing some bricking. Nose earthy, mushroom and forest floor, with sour cherry and cranberry, big umami scent, almost a rare roast meat. Palate there, balanced. Tannins resolving now, though still there. Good acidity drives wine forward. Mouthcoating minerals, and still, good fruit. Surprisingly long finish for the level of wine. Not a great Burgundy, but the vintage seems to have really lifted this boat nicely.

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  3/15/2017 - collin wrote:

  My initial thought on this is basically my thought when I drink any '05 Burgundy these days: they're in puberty. Essentially a deep funk of an in-between stage where the wine seems to have fundamentally changed, you can see some of the beauty that's to come, but right now is not all that pleasant to be around. In the case of the '05 Clos de Malte, this has picked up significant weight (compared to where it started) and developed a lovely sour cherry and sous bois nose. But the palate is something of a hot mess- at times suggesting that velvet texture that will make this wine phenomenal but ultimately ending up all tannic and acidic tough to get through. I think another 2-5 yrs does this a world of good and you end up with a perfect inexpensive, aged Burgundy. It's just unfortunate it's taken me 5 of the 7 bottles I've bought to get here... Of course it's not obvious a $25 btl of wine should take 15+ years to come around...

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