Domaine Jaeger-Defaix Rully Premier Cru Les Cloux Blanc 2022 (Burgundy, France) - [DM 91] [BH 90-93]

Domaine Jaeger-Defaix Rully Premier Cru Les Cloux Blanc 2022
(Burgundy, France) - [DM 91] [BH 90-93]


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VIntage:

After the very difficult season 2021, we all hoped a more serene and generous year.
Our wishes were fulfilled…

This year again, the winter was quite mild with very few real days of frost. And, once again, the budburst started early.

We had a small frost alert in early April with very little damages as it happened one week earlier compared to 2021. We have also confirmed the efficiency of pruning in 2 steps in order to delay the budburst. And we have tested our new heating cables installation, it worked well.

The beginning of the season has been racing with a quick and regular growth.
The weather was great with few rainfalls at the right time.
And the flowering took place without any trouble.

At the end of June, we have received 80 mm of rain which was very positive for the soil reserves and so for the rest of the season.
We have thinned out the leaves on one side of the row at the end of the season to have a good aeration nearby the grapes and avoid a possible spread of diseases.

The harvests started at the end of August in Rully and early September in Chablis. So, it is still a very early vintage. Thanks to the excellent sanitary state of the vineyard, we were able to wait for the perfect maturity for each parcel. In general, in 2022, we are back to normal volumes without excess.

The whites are showing a nice balance, and a great structure in the mouth; the Rully’s with a beautiful aromatic palette and the Chablis’ on the minerality.

On the reds 2022, we are back to an important phenolic potential. So, the challenge was to extract not too much in order to preserve the fruit and the fineness we love so much.

About Cloux:
The area Cloux is located just on top of the Chapitre on clay-limestone soils more and more clear as you rise on the slope. As for the Mont Palais, the wine is fermented and aged in oak barrels during 18 months. Then the wine is bottled after a light filtration.
This fine and fruity wine also shows mineral notes and a great ctructure on the mouth.

Ratings and Reviews:

91 Points - Decanter:
"This distinctive wine boasts a lemon peel and nectarine fruit with notes of flint and a slight smoky reduction. The texture is concentrated and lively, with acidity to balance the extract and draw the wine to a lovely finish. The grapes are from a hectare of vines at mid-slope above the village, 40% of which is 80 years old; they are gently pressed and fermented in used casks before ageing for 18 months. (Drink between 2024-2030)." - Charles Curtis (Oct 2023)

90-93 Points - Burghound:

"Here the wood treatment is more subtle on the very pretty and more floral-suffused nose of citrus, anise and white orchard fruit scents. There is a finer texture to the punchier medium weight flavors that culminate in a bone-dry, balanced and even more persistent finale. The underlying tension is palpable and overall, this chiseled effort is very good and a wine that should amply repay mid-term keeping." - Allen Meadows (Oct 2023)