Domaine Jaeger-Defaix - Rully 1er Cru Les Cloux 2020
Burgundy
White
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90/100
Inside Burgundy - Jasper Morris
"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
Pair with blanquette of fish, simmered poultry, rabbit with mustard, or Comté cheese.
Domaine Jaeger-Defaix
Rully
Expert opinion
Bettane & Desseauve
Domaine rated 1*Star (A serious, recommendable production, in line 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
Domaine noté (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
Domaine noté Sélectionné (We remind you that this guide is a prize list, and as such, all the estates 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 transferred to barrel.
Inside Burgundy - Jasper Morris
Rated wine (guide 2022) 90/100
Rated area (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.
Customer reviews
Customer rating
4/5
out of 1 review
Note and review by Mme LAETITIA G. Published on 11/10/2023
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