2023 Domaine Jérome Chezeaux
Finessed and Powerful Wines
Finessed and Powerful Wines
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The vineyard and winemaking team of Jerome and daughter Lyse farm 12ha in predominantly the southern Nuits St. Georges appellation and in Vosne.
Lyse won the 2024 Jeune (Young) Talent award for the Cote d'Or and has been working full-time at the estate since 2009. We imported a batch from 2020 and fell in love with the purity and freshness and the beautiful pinot fruitiness, floral qualities and spice. All of this and great richness too. The domaine uses 30% new oak, but there is so much fruit that the oak is not obvious. This winemaking duo have a real knack for making silky flavoursome and complex, fresh wines with beautiful integrated but ample tannins, and as Tim Atken MW says "curvaceous" wines!
If unsure of these wines, please buy a 4-pack! You wont be sorry
Lyse won the 2024 Jeune (Young) Talent award for the Cote d'Or and has been working full-time at the estate since 2009. We imported a batch from 2020 and fell in love with the purity and freshness and the beautiful pinot fruitiness, floral qualities and spice. All of this and great richness too. The domaine uses 30% new oak, but there is so much fruit that the oak is not obvious. This winemaking duo have a real knack for making silky flavoursome and complex, fresh wines with beautiful integrated but ample tannins, and as Tim Atken MW says "curvaceous" wines!
If unsure of these wines, please buy a 4-pack! You wont be sorry
...2021 Barolo from a Serralunga superstar
"Baudana, managed by the Vaira family since 2009, is one of the most under-the-radar estates in all of Piedmont. I was so impressed with the elegance of the tannins in these wines. I can't recommend the 2021s highly enough."
- Antonio Galloni, Vinous
- Antonio Galloni, Vinous
The Vairas are not your average wine-growing family. You can take as a given the things many producers are striving to catch up on these days. Organic viticulture? The estate’s been at it since the beginning. Light-touch, hands-off winemaking to show off the fruit and terroir? Ditto. Innovation in the vineyard and cellar to keep raising the bar in the minutiae of purity and precision. Again, tick.
The Serravallian soils of Serralunga d’Alba are a perfect complement to the Vaira vineyards in Barolo. The crus of Baudana and Cerretta match the majesty of Ravera and Bricco delle Viole. And the humble respect and understated excellence writ large in Luigi and Fiorina Baudana’s legacy fit the Vaira family like a glove.
It was a match made in Nebbiolo heaven when Luigi and Fiorina entrusted the estate to the Vajra family in 2009. Year after year, Baudana’s Barolo wines effortlessly pull off the tantalising contradictions of great Nebbiolo with its gleaming purity and shadowy enigma.
Those who managed to snap up the sold-out G.D. Vajra Barolo wines from 2021 know how this family made hay while the sun was shining during the stellar 2021 harvest. The Serralunga commune wine is always an immaculate and great-value ambassador for this area, and this edition is a cracker. The Baudana and Cerretta Barolos, meanwhile, demonstrate precisely what happens when a family of artistry and ambition with restraint is unleashed on great terroirs in a spectacular vintage.
It was a match made in Nebbiolo heaven when Luigi and Fiorina entrusted the estate to the Vajra family in 2009. Year after year, Baudana’s Barolo wines effortlessly pull off the tantalising contradictions of great Nebbiolo with its gleaming purity and shadowy enigma.
Those who managed to snap up the sold-out G.D. Vajra Barolo wines from 2021 know how this family made hay while the sun was shining during the stellar 2021 harvest. The Serralunga commune wine is always an immaculate and great-value ambassador for this area, and this edition is a cracker. The Baudana and Cerretta Barolos, meanwhile, demonstrate precisely what happens when a family of artistry and ambition with restraint is unleashed on great terroirs in a spectacular vintage.
