2018 | Henri & Philippe Jouan | Clos St Denis

Domaine Henri Jouan is a tiny estate is situated in the village of Morey-Saint-Denis and run by Phillipe Jouan, the fifth generation of his family to make Pinot Noir here. This 2018 bottle comes from a stand-out vintage and you can expect great concentration, haunting complexity and sturdy acid backbones.

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This small estate is run by Philippe Jouan, though overlooked still with great attention by father Henri. Father and son, during my visits anyway, seem to spend their entire time in amicable contradiction, the one correcting or modifying every sentence uttered by the other. Henri is in his 70s, but , despite the bickering, is, I’m certain, a very useful consultant to his son. The estate is tiny, only 3 hectares split over 10 parcels for the 5 crus produced. Vines are between 45 – 70 years old. But there is even less than 3 hectares-worth of wine to bottle as Maison Joseph Drouhin have been long-standing customers since Henri first began making wine, fifty years ago. Both father and now son rely on empirical experience in wine making and élevage and claim that nothing has changed in these fifty years. The grapes are de-stemmed, fermented at a temperature “controlled” in the French sense of the word by Henri’s hand on the side of the tank! They like a quick malolactic fermentation and they rack off the lees straight after.

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