Domaine Jaeger-Defaix - Rully 1er Cru Clos du Chapitre 2018

Name: Domaine Jaeger-Defaix - Rully 1er Cru Clos du Chapitre 2018
Brand: Domaine Jaeger-Defaix
Rating: 4.1 (7 reviews)

Rully 1er Cru|Red wine

Burgundy

Red

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Drink or Keep

4.1/5 (7 customers)

15,5/20

Bourgogne Aujourd'hui

88/100

Burghound

pinot noir

finesse

racy

"Notes of red berries with fairly intense oak. Nice body and pleasant freshness on the palate. Very 'digestible' on the finish." (Bourgogne Aujourd'hui - June 2019) Located just behind the family estate, the Clos du Chapitre parcel is a monopoly of over a hectare grown under low yields. Here, Pinot Noir expresses itself in a very Burgundian style, offering a racy, elegant wine with good ageing potential.

Features

Estate

Domaine Jaeger-Defaix

Cuvée

1er Cru Clos du Chapitre

Vintage

2018

Designation

Rully 1er Cru

Region

Burgundy

Grape varieties

100% Pinot Noir

Terroirs

Appellation monopoly plot, enclosed by walls on clay-limestone and red clay soils.

Viticulture

In organic conversion

Harvest

Manual

Winemaking

Sorting in the vineyard, then in the cellar, fermentation for 2 to 3 weeks with daily pumping over.

Breeding

In oak barrels (half new) for 15 to 18 months

Alcohol content

13.5%

Tasting & pairing

Eye

Ruby red color

Nose

Lightly toasted black cherry fan, peppery and red fruit notes, spices

Mouth

Reduction to be aired, fine, racy and structured matter, elegant in a Burgundian style, silky, supple tannins, a wine for connoisseurs.

Serve

AT 16-18°C

Open

In advance on recent vintages to eliminate any reduction notes

Drink before

2028

Guard

10 years

Food and wine pairing

Ideal with red tuna carpaccio, beef cheek stew, red tuna steak, rabbit stew, etc.

Domain Jaeger-Defaix

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Rully

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Expert opinion

Bettane & Desseauve

Domain rated 1*Star (A serious, commendable production, in keeping with what one has the right to expect from its appellation(s))

About the domain :

Domaine Jaeger-Defaix covers 6 hectares in Rully, including 4.5 in premier cru, certified organic since 2012. Hélène Jaeger-Defaix, agricultural engineer and oenologist, wife of Didier Defaix (domaine Bernard Defaix de Chablis), is at the helm. Viticulture with ploughed soils and vinification that respects the harvest as much as possible, with the aim of letting the plots express themselves, are beginning to pay off. The 2017 vintage is in top form, with classic, fine wines.

Bourgogne Aujourd'hui

Wine rated (guide 2019) 15,5/ 20

About the wine:

Notes of red berries with fairly intense oak. Nice body and pleasant freshness on the palate. Very "digestible" finish.

Guide Hachette des vins

Domain rated (guide 2022) Award-winning wines (The wines of this producer are regularly awarded by the guide)

About the domain :

Wife of Chablis winemaker Bernard Defaix, Hélène Jaeger took over her great-aunt Henriette Niepce's estate in 2005. She immediately converted to organic farming (certification in 2009).

RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France

Domain Noted Selected (We remind you that this guide is a prize list, and as such, all the domains that appear in it, even without a star, represent, in our eyes, the excellence of French production).

About the domain :

In 2002, Hélène Jaeger first took over a parcel of Rully Premier Cru from her great-aunt Henriette Niépce - a descendant of the famous inventor - and then the entire estate in 2005. Wife of Bernard Defaix, winemaker in Chablis, she applies the principles of great wines, with tilled soils and manual harvesting. The cuvées are vinified at the fully-equipped Chablis winery; the white wines are aged in barrels.

Burghound

Wine rated (2020 guide) 88/100

About the wine:

Here, the woodiness is discreet on the varied fresh scents of pepper, plum, earth and violet. The intense flavors are lively, ending with a bitter, cherry-tinged finish. It's not extremely dense, but complex nonetheless, and should drink well with a year or two of cellaring.

Inside Burgundy - Jasper Morris

Domain rated (2022 guide) Recommended

Customer reviews

Customer rating

4.1/5

on 7 reviews