Louis Jadot, Rosé

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This was something of a surprise to us!

A serious producer turns to a fashionable wine trend and makes… well, the usual story is that they make a mess and get trashed for trying to print money. However! This is utterly delightful Rosé that happens to be made by Louis Jadot.

The secret is that Jadot have exceptional vineyard holdings in Beaujolais and this is where they get their very fine Gamay grapes. Because they know what they have and where to apportion the grapes, they are able to select from a really interesting set of vineyards across the region that makes this wine at once fresh, interesting, delicious and very well-balanced. Not only as all Rosé wines should be, but indeed as any wine should be!

Jadot is a brilliant name in Burgundy and therefore the whole of France. Therefore the whole of the world and it’s not too far from the truth to consider them to be one of the most respectable names in wine. They produce an incredibly large number of wines from the length and breadth of Burgundy and though one might imagine that this dilutes the intensity of their production values, they manage to hit the mark with almost every appellation in which they work. We think that it’s because they apply a sensible attitude to each village: working with what they have they start at the bottom level and attach an identity to the Village, then seek out the same values albeit at higher quality from the 1er and then Grand Cru vineyards. This way the typicity of the village is preserved and the character of the rarefied single vineyard plots can be found in the village wines. Simplistic? Not sure, but even if it works, they have an absurd number of villages to work through and succeed with; and broadly speaking, they do much better than that. You want to know what Beaune tastes like? Try this; but it’ll also be one of the best versions you can get – that’s what a really good house like Jadot can do.