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Domaine Jaeger-Defaix - Rully 1er Cru Les Cloux 2020

Burgundy

White

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Inside Burgundy - Jasper Morris

chardonnay
mineral
textured
cheeses

"Clear, pale, delicate and pure, a little austere and firm with some very light apple notes. White fruit, dense, excellent, with a little residual gas that favors tension, strong yet pure and dense. And extremely persistent. (Inside Burgundy - Jasper Morris 2022) Sublime! - Attention, limited quantities.

Features

Estate

Domaine Jaeger-Defaix

Cuvée

1er Cru Les Cloux

Vintage

2020

Designation

Rully 1er Cru

Region

Burgundy

Grape varieties

100% Chardonnay

Terroirs

The Cloux appellation is located above Le Chapitre on clay-limestone soils that become lighter the further up the hill you go.

Viticulture

In organic conversion

Harvest

Manual

Winemaking

Fermented in oak barrels for 18 months, then lightly filtered and bottled.

Breeding

In oak barrels for 18 months

Alcohol content

13.5%

Tasting & pairing

Eye

Golden yellow colour

Nose

Intense fresh fruit, a bouquet of yellow and white flowers with a hint of lemon

Mouth

Well-balanced, with fullness and roundness harmonized by freshness and mineral notes on a toasted almond finish.

Serve

AT 12°C

Drink before

2027

Food and wine pairing

Food and wine pairing

Pair with blanquette of fish, simmered poultry, rabbit with mustard, or Comté cheese.

Domain Jaeger-Defaix

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Expert opinion

Bettane & Desseauve

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.

Guide Hachette des vins

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

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.

Inside Burgundy - Jasper Morris

Inside Burgundy - Jasper Morris

Wine rated (2022 guide) 90/100

Domain rated (2022 guide) Recommended

About the wine:

Clear, pale, delicate and pure, a little austere and firm with some very light apple notes. White fruit, dense, excellent, with a little residual gas that favors tension, strong yet pure and dense. And extremely persistent.

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