(Please see my overall vintage review here.)
Like the Côte de Beaune reds, this selection from the Côte de Nuits is most successful.
All wines from Domaine Louis Jadot, Domaine Gagey, or Domaine des Héritiers Jadot, as indicated, are estate wines; other wines are negociant wines.
2018 Marsannay Longeroies Domaine Louis Jadot
This wine is fruity but with good structure, freshness, and minerality and also good acidity. The Longeroies climat is expected to soon be accorded premier cru status. (89-91)
2018 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots Domaine Gagey
Still some reduction in the nose, but this wine shows depth, juiciness, and spiced red fruit favors, tannins, and good length and overall structure. (90-93)
2018 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Chaumes
The Chaumes has tar, red fruits, licorice, a medium-light body, elegance, and fine tannins. It is an attractive Chaumes, made from wine that Jadot purchases in barrel and then raises. (90-92)
2018 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Charmes
This negociant wine is made from purchased grapes; 2018 is the last vintage that Jadot has access to the grapes from this source. The wine is medium-light on the palate with good minerality, dark fruits, freshness, depth, length, and balance. It is a very pretty wine. (91-94)
2018 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Baudes Domaine Gagey
Even better than the Chambolle-Charmes is the Chambolle-Baudes. The wine is pure and focused with mineral red fruits, freshness, balance, round tannins, and length. Another very pretty wine. (93-95)
2018 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Petite Chapelle
Like the Vosne-Chaumes above, this is from wine that Jadot purchases in barrel and then raises. There’s still some reduction in the nose, but the mouth shows good acidity for the vintage, tannins, red fruits, tension, and also some richness. (91-93)
2018 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Clos Saint-Jacques Domaine Louis Jadot
The Gevrey-Clos Saint-Jacques comes from the very end of Jadot’s 2018 harvest, and to my taste, it seems to have surpassed its ideal ripeness; it is qualitatively different in style from the other wines presented here. The nose features very ripe dark fruits. The mouth has black cherry and other dark fruits that are very ripe. The wine has a velvet texture. (90-92)
2018 Chambertin-Clos de Bèze Domaine Louis Jadot
Jadot’s Clos-de-Bèze has dark fruit aromas with some floral overtones. The mouth here is ripe, but not overripe like the Clos Saint-Jacques, with richness, moderate acidity, and good concentration. The wine seems ready to provide early-drinking pleasure but also has capacity to age. (93-95)
2018 Echézeaux Domaine Louis Jadot
The Echézeaux has an earthy, soy, Echézaux-stink nose. The mouth shows finesse, lightness, dark fruits, sweetness from the fruit, sensuality, and length. (93-95)
2018 Clos Vougeot Domaine Louis Jadot
The power and rusticity of Clos Vougeot are here and also the tannins and red and black raspberry fruits. This is a wine that will need 15-20 years in the bottle, but there is very good potential. (92-95)
2018 Bonnes-Mares Domaine Louis Jadot
Last, the Bonnes-Mares is the pick of the lot that I tasted on this particular day. The wine has tannins, but also finesse and depth to go with minerality and red fruits. There’s an outstanding future, but like almost all top Bonnes-Mares, count on a minimum of 15, probably more like 20, years for this wine realize its full potential. (94-96)