Region: Burgundy
Sub Region: Beaune 1er Cru Les Montrevenots
Variety: Pinot Noir
Country: France
Vintage: 2023.
The Wine
Antoine Jobard is no longer simply a great white Burgundy producer. With roughly half the domaine now devoted to red wine, and holdings centred on Beaune and Pommard, he is making some of the most exciting Pinot in the Côte de Beaune. The 2023 Les Montrevenots comes from a very high, cold, rocky and late-ripening site on the Pommard boundary above Clos des Mouches. It is south-facing, which helps offset the altitude, and the white clay and limestone soils deliver bright red fruit, raciness and a fine, powdery structure. This is still a tiny cuvée from a small parcel of the domaine’s 1.4 hectares, as much of the site is being replanted with massale-selection cuttings. The vines used for this wine are 45 years old; all bunches were destemmed, the fruit received a week-long cold soak before fermentation, and the wine saw very little new oak before bottling after 12 months on lees.
Cellared Says
This looks like one of the sleepers in the range. The site gives it brightness and edge, while the fruit has enough generosity to make it seductive young. Very smart Beaune, and very easy to imagine it outperforming its appellation.
Reviews
“A wider nose with a small comfort. Here’s a little extra structure and plenty of flavour energy. That’s a very tasty wine and if finishes with a good length. The flavour, like the nose, slightly rounder…”
Bill Nanson, Burgundy Report.
“Another Antoine Jobard red with a bounty of fruit that can barely contain its youthful exuberance – almost bouncing out the glass. It feels like the tannins have been left behind and can’t keep up with the fruit, spices trying to thread the two together. Unseemly in its drinkability.”
17/20 points, Tamlyn Currin, jancisrobinson.com
Region: Burgundy
Sub Region: Beaune 1er Cru Les Montrevenots
Variety: Pinot Noir
Country: France
Vintage: 2023.
The Wine
Antoine Jobard is no longer simply a great white Burgundy producer. With roughly half the domaine now devoted to red wine, and holdings centred on Beaune and Pommard, he is making some of the most exciting Pinot in the Côte de Beaune. The 2023 Les Montrevenots comes from a very high, cold, rocky and late-ripening site on the Pommard boundary above Clos des Mouches. It is south-facing, which helps offset the altitude, and the white clay and limestone soils deliver bright red fruit, raciness and a fine, powdery structure. This is still a tiny cuvée from a small parcel of the domaine’s 1.4 hectares, as much of the site is being replanted with massale-selection cuttings. The vines used for this wine are 45 years old; all bunches were destemmed, the fruit received a week-long cold soak before fermentation, and the wine saw very little new oak before bottling after 12 months on lees.
Cellared Says
This looks like one of the sleepers in the range. The site gives it brightness and edge, while the fruit has enough generosity to make it seductive young. Very smart Beaune, and very easy to imagine it outperforming its appellation.
Reviews
“A wider nose with a small comfort. Here’s a little extra structure and plenty of flavour energy. That’s a very tasty wine and if finishes with a good length. The flavour, like the nose, slightly rounder…”
Bill Nanson, Burgundy Report.
“Another Antoine Jobard red with a bounty of fruit that can barely contain its youthful exuberance – almost bouncing out the glass. It feels like the tannins have been left behind and can’t keep up with the fruit, spices trying to thread the two together. Unseemly in its drinkability.”
17/20 points, Tamlyn Currin, jancisrobinson.com
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