Louis Jadot - Chambolle-Musigny Les Fuées Premier Cru 2018 (750ml)
Price: $145.99
Producer | Louis Jadot |
Country | France |
Region | Burgundy |
Subregion | Chambolle Musigny |
Varietal | Pinot Noir |
Vintage | 2018 |
Sku | 6537 |
This is a feminine wine, elegant and delicate with fine tannins and fruity, spicy aromas and flavors. It has great aging potential.
Pairs perfectly with filet mignon, game and strong cheeses such as Reblochon.
Decanter: 94 Points
Louis Jadot's vines are divided between three parcels that have different orientations across and up and down the slope to the north of the village of Chambolle-Musigny. Sweetly oaked, this has a hint of noble reduction, plush, caressing tannins, fine-grained red berry fruit and a smoky, toasty finish. It's ripe, but the acidity freshens the finish.
Wine Advocate: 94 Points
Like this year's Baudes, the 2018 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Fuées (Domaine Louis Jadot) is especially successful, revealing lovely aromas of raspberries, potpourri, Asian spices, black tea and cherries. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, deep and supple, with a layered core that's gourmand and charming, concluding with a long and perfumed finish.
Burghound: 93 Points
Strong reduction and less obvious, though hardly invisible, wood presently dominates the underlying fruit. There is a wonderfully seductive mouthfeel to the velvet-textured flavors that possess that beguiling inner mouth perfume as well as plenty of dry extract that buffers the moderately firm tannic spine on the solidly lingering and mildly warm finish. This too needs to add depth but that should gradually develop over time.
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