Unusually for my visits here (and elsewhere in Burgundy), we start on this visit with the white wines.
Jadot now exploits (owns or farms) 130 ha in the Côte d’Or and purchases the equivalent of about 70 ha more of Côte d’Or grapes/musts/wine. In addition, there are wines from Chablis, the Côte Chalonnaise, the Mâconnais, and the Beaujolais. In short, Jadot is as close as one can come to an encyclopedia of Burgundy terroirs.
Malo-lactic fermentations began very early. As Jadot often does, it blocked the malos for some of the whites. New oak for the whites is around 25% in 2017; usually it has been around 30%.
I give the source of the wine (e.g., Domaine Gagey, Domaine Louis Jadot, etc.) because Jadot sometimes has more than a single cuvée from a given vineyard. Due to the large number of bottlings, I, of course, cannot taste every single wine that Jadot produces.
My overall view of white Burgundies in 2017 is that it is the finest vintage since 2014, which in turn is the finest young white Burgundy vintage I’ve encountered in more than thirty vintages of tasting from barrel. But at Jadot, the 2017 vintage may equal 2014. (Continue reading here.)