2020 Maison Louis Jadot, Clos de la Roche Grand Cru

The 2020 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru has a more powerful and demonstrative bouquet compared to Jadot’s Clos Saint-Denis with layers of blackberry, boysenberry and raspberry fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with a touch of graphite on the entry, lightly spiced, perhaps sans the same precision as the Clos Saint-Denis on the finish, a hint of peppercorns on the aftertaste. Still, this is very fine and quite noble.

This cuvée seldom emerges among my favorites among the négociant bottlings from Jadot, but the 2020 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru (Maison Louis Jadot) has turned out quite nicely. Exhibiting notes of orange rind, dark fruits, loamy soil and toasty new oak, it's full-bodied, rich and chewy, with firm, powdery tannins that assert themselves a touch aggressively on the finish.