Domain Henri Jayer NSG 1996 Bottle (75cl)

Histoire du domaine

Born in Vosne-Romanée in 1922, Henri Jayer took over the family estate in 1939, at the age of 16, when his brothers were called up for military service. He then went on to study oenology in Dijon. His estate initially covered 3.5 hectares spread across Vosne-Romanée, Nuits-Saint-Georges and Échézeaux. After the war, he also worked as a sharecropper on vineyards that did not belong to him. In 1950, he entered into a sharecropping agreement with Maria Noirot-Camuzet for Cros-Parantoux, a plot of land in Vosne-Romanée that was then lying fallow, almost all of which he subsequently acquired. He began bottling some of his wines under his own name in 1959. Having initially blended Cros-Parantoux into his Vosne-Romanée village wine, he began vinifying it separately from 1978 onwards. His winemaking practices were based in particular on careful soil management, moderate yields, the complete destemming of the harvest and the use of new oak barrels. Emmanuel Rouget, his nephew, began working with him in 1976 and gradually took over the estate; by 2001, all of Henri Jayer’s vineyards were under his control. Henri Jayer died in Dijon on 20 September 2006. Two-thirds of Cros-Parantoux now belong to Henri Jayer’s two daughters and are managed by Emmanuel Rouget; the remainder is managed by the Méo-Camuzet estate.