Why an early taste from Louis Jadot has us excited.
Loire Valley Wines Were Once the Toast of Europe. This French Businessman Thinks They Should Be Again.
After spring frost that threatened to wipe out a large percentage of the grape crop—as it had the previous year—and record-setting summer heat spikes and dryness delayed ripening, the freshness and vitality ofis remarkable if not actually miraculous. In September of that year, the Bourgogne Wine Board released a statement that said, “With beautiful balance, perfect health, and wonderful color extraction, it would be unreasonable to ask for more.
Louis Jadot technical director Frédéric Barnier describes 2022 as “a very consistent vintage, solid everywhere from basic wines to the top, in Côte de Beaune as in Côte de Nuits.” Although in years pastwere harvested at different times—as were vineyards in the north and south of the region—Barnier’s team was picking grapes up and down the Côte d’Or and as far south as the Mâconnais over a three-week period between late August and mid-September.