2022 Famille Gagey Bouzeron, Burgundy, France

ABOUT THIS WINE

Bouzeron is a rather new appellation dating back to 1998, only producing white wine with the Aligoté grape. It is the only identified place in Burgundy where a village appellation is produced with the aligoté grape (a crossing of gouais and pinot noir). Bouzeron is a small village located in the Côte Chalonnaise next to Rully. The size of the appellation is very small: 116.1 acres. Fermentation and vinification take place in stainless steel tanks and aging in French oak barrels (30% new barrels).

ABOUT THIS PRODUCER

Maison Louis Jadot farms its vineyards sustainably and handpicks all its fruit to ensure the highest possible quality.
Perhaps nowhere else in the world is terroir expression more pronounced and coveted than in the Côte d’Or. With a continental climate, the specific combination of soils, exposure and microclimates within Burgundy’s venerated vineyards cultivates some of the world’s most highly esteemed grapes.

Historic rules of inheritance have fragmented ownership so that most vineyards are divided into multiple parcels.  Since its founding, and particularly since the mid-1980s, Maison Louis Jadot has made it a long-term policy to acquire the finest vineyard lands when they become available. This has consolidated some of the purest expressions of Burgundy’s terroir in Jadot holdings.

In addition to its practice of farming domaine fruit sustainably, Jadot structures its supply agreements for its non-domaine wines as collaborative partnerships between house and grower oriented solely toward quality. Jadot makes its standards clear to its growers, and lends advice when necessary. No binding contracts exist; neither is under obligation to transact with the other, for reasons of quality on Jadot’s part or for reasons of price on the growers’. Yet Maison Louis Jadot’s policy, if costly, of buying grapes at the price of finished wine, provides the grower a financial advantage with less effort, and ensures Jadot a degree of continuity of supply as well as control over the fruit at the very earliest stage of its transformation into wine.