Joseph Jamet started with 35 ares in 1950, back when Côte-Rôtie was so overlooked that half his land grew apricots and peaches. He didn't bottle his own wine until 1976. This 2021 comes off schist with a little granite, vines ranging from five to eighty-five years old, and it delivers exactly what a French daily meant by "quel panache!": lifted floral aromatics, salivating bacon fat, lightly smoked olive. The Jamet family will shrug and call it terroir.
Tasting Notes
Quel panache ! ” reads the tasting note on this bottling in one of France’s leading daily papers. Panache, indeed, not to mention lifting floral aromatics, salivating bacon fat, and lightly smoked olive notes that are otherworldly. The Jamet family will humbly write this all off as merely part of the terroir, which—while holding much truth—understates the family’s virtuosic touch here, ever precise and meticulous. The Jamets never got the memos on trends, tastes, and fads over the last fifty years. Those have all come and gone while they’ve thankfully just done their thing, which they say is simply giving a voice and expression to their terroir; I say it’s making Côte-Rôtie like no one has ever made Côte-Rôtie before. It really is that good. **Extremely limited quantities, limit three bottles per order**
About the Producer
Joseph Jamet began in 1950 with just 35 ares of vineyard. At the time, Côte Rôtie was largely overlooked, so much of his land was planted with apricots, peaches, and nectarines. He only started bottling his own wine in 1976 but was quickly recognized by buyers seeking the best domaine-bottled Côte Rôtie, already famed as a top red wine appellation. Today, the estate is entirely devoted to wine grapes, including 8,7 hectares of the “roasted slope” across 19 plots. The varied terroirs allow for consistently complex and distinctive wines.
