2003 Louis Jadot Saint Véran Domaine de la Chapelle aux Loups

Community Tasting Notes (5) Median Score: 88 points

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  8/16/2008 - salil wrote: 88 Points

  This bottle was served at a much colder temperature than the last one I'd had and seemed far less expressive as a result. Bright clean citrus, melon, peach and mineral flavours with hints of vanilla and good acidity. Elegant, clean and well balanced, but this didn't show the same depth and complexity as I had experienced before with this - this may have been in need of a fair bit of air.

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  2/10/2008 - Jay Hack wrote: 88 Points

  This bottle was a gift from Leo F., the Johnny Appleseed of Jadot wines. Keith the fruit hater wrote a note that he found this wine to be Chablis style minerals. Although there is some minerality here, my primary impressions are fruit not minerals, more of a southern white Burgundy where I find more fruit. Apple, white stone fruit and a bt of real shardonnay grape. color is light, finish is moderate to long. Nose is . . . chardonnay grape! No phony flavors where you wonder "where did that come from?" I got no direct wood flavor and just a tiny bit of vanilla. Remember that 88 pts means somewhere between very good and excellent.

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  11/11/2007 - Gregory Dal Piaz wrote: 87 Points

  grand cru burgundy once a month: This turns decidely more fruited than the previous whites with it lemon curd and oaken spice nose. lean and focused in the mouth with just a touch of creaminess to the restrained yet pure fruit. Lovely if a bit short and suffering in comparison to the previous pair of wines

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  11/10/2007 - salil wrote: 91 Points

  A gift from Leo Frokic - I opened this with a light meal of grilled chicken over linguini. A light yellow colour with an initially restrained nose that opens up with time to show citrus, melon and mint over crushed rocks and a faint hint of vanilla. Palate is medium bodied, offering clean citrus fruit flavours and a butterscotch-like note with incredible minerality and lifting, refreshing acidity. The finish is lovely - literally like sucking on rocks.

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  10/9/2007 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 95 Points

  They say never to pick a fight with a man who buys his ink by the barrel. Along similar lines, never doubt the house wine of a man who buys his Jadot by the pallet (Leo Frokic). So when he dangled the phrase "grand cru" to describe this wine my curiosity was piqued. And he's right, this performs at an unreal level for a Macon, for a 2003, for its friendly price. It requires a few minutes to get going as initial scents of wood go into hiding and then keeps changing in the glass, going from Cote d'Or in style to Chablisienne to something lighter and purer in an Alpine style, with bright, fresh, pure fruit throughout. In the middle stage it features a crunchy minerality of chalk and oyster shell and then it enters a state of total weightlessness, wafting over the palate like streamwater and being nearly as gulpable, as cleansing as one of those scenes in a soap commercial where pretty women frolic in a pond in the woods under a waterfall. At that point I polished it off.

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