2015 Domaine Jacques Prieur Montrachet Grand Cru
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Log inThe name Montrachet probably conjures up for connoisseurs the largest terroir of dry white wines in the world. The appellation covers only seven hectares of very fragmented terroir, the holy of holies for the Chardonnay grape. The Domaine Jacques Prieur owns a plot of 0.59 hectares, halfway up the slope and perfectly drained. The exposure is very sunny, the soil thin and stony with an outcrop of white marl.
The year 2015 benefited from absolutely exceptional climatic conditions with abundant sunshine, very weak rainfall and very high temperatures in June and July. The strong light and heat that this year were marked by an accelerated vegetative cycle and certain stages such as flowering in early June and ripening in early August were fulgurative. Harvests at Domaine Jacques Prieur began on September 3rd for Chardonnays and on September 7th for Pinot Noirs. 2015 can be illustrated as an extremely early vintage and stands alongside 2003, 2007 and 2011.
The colour is brilliant, a luminous green-gold with sparkling silver highlights. The nose, although somewhat reserved at the moment, shows great complexity with notes of granite that shine through in aromas of green apple and pear. The olfactory expression of great purity gives a feeling of immense restrained power. The palate is thick and fat, generous. The structure is enormous with nobility and balance thanks to biting, tight acidity, full of energy. The aroma shows aniseed and spice notes that evolve into notes of candied lemon, in a fruity expression full of class. A strong mineral juiciness gives the finish infinite length. This is, without a doubt, one of the greatest white wines in the world and will benefit from prior decanting and tasting in large, very fine glasses. A poularde aux girolles or a sea bass en croûte de sel could then accompany it for a very emotional moment.
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Neal Martin
The 2015 Montrachet Grand Cru has a light, slight smoky bouquet with an intriguing and very subtle licorice note that loiters in the background like a naughty kid. The palate is well balanced and shows more cohesion and terroir expression than the Chevalier-Montrachet: quite powerful with an attractive viscous texture, but counterbalanced by a fine thread of acidity and a convincing spicy finish. This is the best white from Jacques Prieur this year by some margin.
Final visit, week 4, was Maison Jacques Prieur and whilst Edouard Labruyère could not be there since he was up in Paris showing his wines at a tasting, I had the pleasure of not only head winemaker Nadine Gublin, but also Monsieur Jacques Prieur himself. "We started to pick the whites on 3 September and the reds on 7 September," Nadine told me, "finishing on 11 September. It was an easy growing season. It was very hot in the summer but we had enough water at the end of August. The polyphenols were very nice. There wasn't much sunburn on the grapes but it was nothing compared to 2003. All the aromas and colour came easily. We will bottle in January after some have been racked." Reiterating previous reports, the quality of the wines from Maison Jacques Prieur have improved dramatically in recent years. Perhaps owning vines in hallowed grounds such as Musigny, Chambertin and Montrachet encouraged them to rest on their laurels, but this is not the case nowadays. The growing season certainly played its part and in my mind, there was a gulf in terms of quality between the whites, whose tension and mineralité was frequently erased by the warmth of the growing season, and the far superior reds. That's not to dismiss the white wines outright and their Montrachet deserves a round of applause, yet the truth is that I much prefer their 2014 whites. Apropos 2015, head directly to reds and don't feel obliged to cherry-pick from the top echelons. Wines like the superb Pommard 1er Cru Charmots, returning after being hailed off in recent years, prove that Jacques Prieur can deliver the goods from more modest vineyards.
Published: Dec 30, 2016
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Vinous
(92-94)
From: 2016 & 2015 White Burgundy (Sep 2017)
(13.3% natural alcohol; about to be bottled): Bright, light yellow. Aromas of apricot, yellow grapefruit, apple and iodine. A distinct step up in intensity and cut from the Chevalier-Montrachet; higher-pitched and more energetic in the mouth, with its ripe apricot and citrus fruit flavors buoyed by excellent mineral support. This structured wine will need at least several years in bottle to express itself.
- By Stephen Tanzer on June 2017
I focused on the 2015s in bottle during my visit to Domaine Prieur as only a handful of the estate's ‘16s had finished their malolactic fermentations. The '16s had not yet been racked and were holding a lot of carbonic gas, which winemaker Nadine Gublin noted is constructive for protecting the wines. She told me that they gained in density and aromatic intensity during the malos and that they were previously too tight and linear.
The alcoholic fermentations were easy in 2016 and the wines finished very dry, at around one gram per liter, Gublin told me, adding that the ‘15s finished with more like 1.5 to 2 grams. The fruit was picked mostly with potential alcohol at 12.5% or higher and some cuvées were chaptalized lightly. Although crop levels were seriously affected by frost in ’16, Domaine Prieur made all of their cuvées, some of them in tiny quantities. Incidentally, at the time of my visit, the estate was expecting a full crop in 2017 following years of shortages.
Domaine Prieur started harvesting their Chardonnay vineyards in 2015 on September 3, after there was "just enough rain on August 31 to wet the dust," in the words of estate director Edouard Labruyère, whose family led the group that purchased Domaine Prieur in 2008. This sunny growing season yielded grapes with very low levels of malic acidity and wines with 12.7% to 13.5% natural alcohol. Labruyère told me that he finds the salinity of 2003 in the young '15s and believes that the wines will be accessible in their youth but will need some time to express their terroir. "It's not a classical vintage," he summarized, "but it's a lovely introduction to our wines."
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Based in Meursault since the 19th century, Domaine Jacques Prieur boasts one of the finest collections of Grands Crus and Premiers Crus in existence. Its 21 hectares of vineyards (11 ha of Pinot Noir and 10 ha of Chardonnay) include many prestigious terroirs, such as Grands Crus Montrachet, Chevalier-Montrachet, Corton-Charlemagne, Corton-Bressandes, Echézeaux, Clos Vougeot, Musigny, Chambertin and Chambertin Clos de Bèze. That's a third of Burgundy's Grands Crus appellations.
Fourteen Premiers Crus complete this magnificent collection spread across Côte de Beaune and Côte de Nuits. Nine grands crus, fourteen premiers crus, three crus monopoles, a true pearl necklace.
Today, the Labruyère family is at the helm of this jewel of Burgundy, as well as owners of Château Rouget in Pomerol and Domaine Labruyère in Moulin-à-Vent. They work daily to make the most of this prestigious heritage. They are assisted by Martin Prieur, grandson of Jacques Prieur, who has lived and worked on the estate with his family since 1990. Now responsible, together with Edouard Labruyère, for the marketing of the Domaine's wines, Martin Prieur represents the link between past and present, because no one knows the history of the Domaine and its vineyards as well as he does. Under the leadership of Daniel Godefroy, an experienced vineyard manager who knows each plot inside out, the Domaine has been following a "viticulture raisonnée" approach for many years. The work in the winery and cellar is supervised by the excellent oenologist Nadine Gublin. An expert in thoughtful and precise interventions in the winemaking process, she was awarded the title of Winemaker of the Year by the Revue du Vin de France in 1998.
Domaine Jacques Prieur produces white and red wines that are powerful and flavorful, figureheads of the great modern Burgundy, and is made entirely of Grands Crus and Premiers Crus (with the exception of Clos de Mazeray in Meursault, Monopole and emblematic Village Appellation).
Deze Montrachet 2015 toont een rijke, viscose Chardonnaytextuur met heldere citrustoetsen van citroen en grapefruit, rijpe abrikoos, een subtiele rokerigheid en anijsachtige specerijen die door een strak mineralige zuurgraad en een lange, kruidige afdronk worden gedragen. Daardoor vormt hij een perfecte begeleider bij gevogelte zoals een zacht geroosterde poularde met girolles waarbij de romigheid van de saus en het umami van de paddenstoelen de brede textuur van de wijn omarmen, bij witte vis zoals zeebaars en dorade bereid in croûte de sel of licht gegrild zodat het zoute en pure visaroma de mineraliteit versterkt, en bij schelpdieren zoals sint-jakobsvruchten of oesters afgewerkt met een boter- of beurre-blancsaus die de rijke mondgevoelens van de wijn extra tot hun recht laten komen.
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