Domaine Jadot Meursault Genevrieres 1998 Bouteille (75cl)
The 1998 Domaine Jadot Meursault Genevrières is a white Burgundy wine classified as Premier Cru within the Meursault appellation. 100% Chardonnay, it comes from the Genevrières climat on the Côte de Beaune. This cuvée is produced by the estate from an owned parcel acquired in 1995, measuring approximately 0.29 hectare. It expresses the identity of a Meursault Premier Cru lieu-dit, originating from one of the village's benchmark climats.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- White
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Meursault
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine Jadot
- Parcelle / Cru
- Genevrières (Meursault)
- Millésime
- 1998
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Chardonnay
Domaine Jadot
Maison Louis Jadot is a wine merchant and producer based in Beaune, Burgundy. Founded in 1859 by Louis Henry Denis Jadot, it produces wines from its own estates and from grapes sourced from the main Burgundian wine-growing regions, from the Côte d’Or to the Mâconnais and the Beaujolais. The company is owned by the Kopf family; Frédéric Barnier oversees the winemaking.
- Owner
- Famille Kopf
- Maître de chais
- Frédéric Barnier
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- 8 000 000 bouteilles/an
Histoire du domaine
The Jadot family’s history in the wine industry in Beaune dates back to 1826, with the acquisition of the Clos des Ursules, a Beaune Premier Cru. In 1859, Louis Henry Denis Jadot purchased the wine merchant’s firm Lemaire-Fouleux and renamed it after himself. His son, Louis Baptiste Jadot, continued to expand the business and reinvested in the acquisition of vineyards, particularly Premiers Crus and Grands Crus in the Côte d’Or. On Louis Baptiste’s death in 1939, his son Louis Auguste Jadot took over the management of the company and expanded into export markets, including the United States. André Gagey joined the company in 1954 as Louis Auguste Jadot’s deputy, before becoming managing director following the latter’s death in 1962. In 1970, André Gagey recruited the oenologist Jacques Lardière, who went on to become the company’s technical director. In February 1985, Maison Louis Jadot was acquired by the owners of Kobrand Fine Wine & Spirits, the Kopf family. Pierre-Henry Gagey chaired the company from 1992 to 2023. Frédéric Barnier joined Louis Jadot as technical director in 2010 and succeeded Jacques Lardière in overseeing winemaking in 2012. Since 1 January 2023, Thomas Seiter has been chairman of Maison Louis Jadot and Thibault Gagey has been its managing director.
Genevrières (Meursault)
Genevrières is a climat officially classified as a Premier Cru of the AOC Meursault, located in the heart of the Premier Cru slope. Its area brings together the lieux-dits Les Genevrières Dessus, Les Genevrières Dessous, part of Les Chaumes des Perrières, and part of Les Chaumes de Narvaux. Sources describe clay-limestone soils and a variable subsoil composed of rocky scree, limestone slabs, or white limestone rock. The altitude, slope, and exposure data published by certain estates concern their own parcels and are therefore not retained as quantified characteristics of the climat as a whole.
- Vineyard commune
- Meursault
- Origin of the vineyard name
- The name refers to the juniper, a shrub suited to poor limestone soils exposed to the winds, which was once present on the Côte.
- Soil
- Clay-limestone soils, with variations between stonier sectors and sectors with deeper soils.
- Subsoil and geology
- Rocky scree, slabs, or bedrock and white limestone depending on the sectors of the climat.
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Estate holding in the vineyard (ha)
- 0.291000 ha
- Vineyard holding status
- Owner and cultivator of the plot
Histoire de la parcelle
The terroir appears in the form "En Genevrier" in a rental roll of the lordship of Meursault dated 1608-1609. Les Genevrières Dessous also appear in the historical cadastral documents of Meursault, while the modern delimitation of the climat groups together several cadastral lieux-dits. Genevrières is today officially recognized among the climats that can complement the Meursault appellation with the "premier cru" mention.
