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Domaine Jean Fery Vosne-Romanee 'aux Reas' 2021

Appellation
Vosne Romanee
Region
Côte de Nuits
Vintage
2021
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Overview

For many, Vosne Romanee makes the ultimate in Pinot Noir. This wonderful 2016 Jean Fery single-vineyard Vosne-Romanee 'Aux Reas' is a beautiful garnat that exudes fruit as intense as its color and flavors as deep and dense as the ensemble suggests, firm and fresh and long.  A great vintage and a great wine.  'Harmony' is a word that springs to mind. 

Winemaker

Domaine Jean Fery

Domaine Jean Fery & Fils is a family-run winery located in the beautiful village of Échevronne between Beaune and Nuits-Saint- Georges. The vineyards span over 34 acres from the north to the south of Burgundy in famous appellations.

Jean-Louis took over his parents’ estate in 1988 and made his childhood dream come true: providing the family estate with the means to develop further through investment in infrastructuire and the purchase of new vineyards.

The vineyards are farmed organically. They have been certified by ECOCERT since 2011. This requires a lot of hard work and dedication.  Jean-Louis takes pleasure in a hands-on operation style,  organizing  the year-round works on the estate. He is also, it seems, always on the look-out for new vineyards, as the revised list of the domain’s holdings suggests.

Quality is priceless, he says.

Vinification

Vinification in white sees the grapes brought whole with stems attached to the winery where they are pressed immediately with a pneumatic press to avoid any chance of oxidation. The juice is kept cold and left to settle out for 24 hours before being fed into oak barrels (50% new oak) to begin the alcoholic fermentation under temperature-controlled conditions.

There is then a twice monthly stirring of the lees until the end of the malo-lactique fermentation. The wines are then fined with bentonite clay and passed through a light plate filter before bottling.

Vinification in red see the grapes totally destemmed before being put into open vats where a low temperature maceration of 5 days facilitates extraction, keeps the fruit fresh and develops complexity to the juice. Fermentation begins with indigenous yeast (no yeast added). Symbiotic yeasts lend more complexity to the juice as well. Temperature is kept below 30C (higher would stop fermentation) with dry ice and a cooling unit.

As the cap forms, the wine is pumped over the cap to keep it wet and to aerate the juice, further stimulating fermentation. This fermentation last about 3 weeks with the cap punched down 3 times daily to extract phenolics for color and tannin.

The free run wine is separated from the pomace, which is then pressed with a pneumatic press. The free run juice and the pressed juice are then combined, and let to settle by gravity before the juice is racked off the must.

 

The juice is then transferred to oak barrels where it stays through the malo-lactique fermentation. It is then racked to clear it. Red wines of the domain are neither fined nor filtered.

Appellations

RED WINES

CÔTE DE NUITS

  • Côte de Nuits Villages "Clos de Magny"
  • Nuits-Saint-Georges "Les Damodes"
  • Vosne Romanée "Aux Réas"
  • Vosne Romanée 1 er Cru "En Orveaux"
  • Morey-Saint-Denis
  • Gevrey Chambertin "Les Crais"
  • Vougeot 1 er Cru "Les Cras"

CÔTE DE BEAUNE

  • Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes-de-Beaune
  • Savigny-Les-Beaune "Sous la Cabotte"
  • Savigny-Les-Beaune 1 er Cru "Les Vergelesses"
  • Pernand Vergelessess 1 er Cru "Les Vergelesses"
  • Aloxe Corton 1 er Cru "Les Guerets"
  • Corton Grand Cru

WHITE WINES

  • Bourgogne Chardonnay
  • Rully 1 er Cru "La Pucelle"
  • Pernand-Vergelesses "Les Combottes"
  • Savigny-Les-Beaune "Ez Connardises"
  • Savigny-Les-Beaune 1 er Cru "Les Vergelesses"
  • Puligny-Montrachet "Les Nosroyes"
  • Chassagne-Montrachet 1 Cru "Abbaye de Morgeot
  • Meursault "Les Narvaux"
  • Meursault "En Dressolles"
  • Meursault 1 er Cru Les Bouchères
  • Corton Grand Cru

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Vintage
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BURGUNDY 2021 VINTAGE

Nothing abides. Just as we Burgundy purists begrudgingly acknowledged the vitality and variety of the three previous hot-weather vintages, along came 2021, classic Burgundy with its frost, damp and low yields.

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Way back when, in pre-climate-change conditions, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay would struggle, year after year, to come to maturity in what was this, the northernmost spot in Europe where grapes could ripen enough to make still wine. That struggle was, in fact, the very definition of viticulture in Burgundy (chaptalization notwithstanding).

But then weather patterns started to change, not drastically, but gradually: milder winters and earlier springs; hotter summers and earlier autumns. By the time we got to 2018, then 2019 and then 2020, those mild winters were breeding grounds for mildew, the early springs were prone to killer frosts, those hot summers forced ripeness onto reticent grapes varieties, and early autumns left little time to the winemaker to sort it all out.

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If this all sounds like an accident waiting to happen, hang on to your hat; it’s all perspective.

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2018 was wet, wet, wet through winter and up to mid-April. Then an explosive bud-burst sent the winemakers scurrying to control the vegetation. But then it got hot, hot, south-of-Spain hot, and mildew never stood a chance. Early harvest, no health issues. Big crop. Great vintage.

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2019 was wet through the winter. Early bud burst, then frost took part of the crop. A warm set up flowering, but cold weather set in, taking another part of the crop. Then it got hot and very dry. Well-tend vines and, especially, old vines did well because there was last winter’s water in the water table, and good vines can go deep for water. Hot, healthy harvest.  Great really ripe vintage.

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2020 was precocious. Mild wet winter. Bud burst in mid-April. From that point on, there is not much to report weatherwise. It was hot and dry from June through to the end. Harvest started in August. Indeed, there was more stress on the winemakers than there was on the vines. When to pick? Overall, great vintage both white and red.

See a pattern?

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And 2021…well in 2021 things returned to ‘normal’ (if such a thing is possible in Burgundy!) First came devastating frosts in the early part of April, which were followed by a cool May, leading to a damp summer with the ever-present threat of hail.

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Chardonnay was more affected than Pinot Noir in that the red grapes come into leaf later. What all this means for the Burgundy harvest is that it will be a story of low yields (miniscule in places) and a late harvest.

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When the older winemakers talk about what to expect this year, words such as ‘historic’ are used and comparisons are drawn with the harvest of 1970.

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Some say we could be down 30% on 2020s already low yields. But it isn’t all bad news. Winemakers are nothing if not hardy, and their optimism cannot be shaken that easily. Fewer grapes on the vine means that those which have survived should have an intensity of flavor which sets them apart and may mark this harvest out as extraordinary. There may be other upsides, too: because the harvest is later, the grapes have had more ‘hang time’ which could mean good phenolic maturity.

Appellation

VOSNE-ROMANEE

COTE DE NUITS

Lying between Flagey-Échezeaux and Nuits-Saint-Georges, Vosne-Romanée holds the middle ground in the Côte de Nuits geographically. But in terms of reputation and fame, it is the jewel in the crown of Burgundian wine villages. With six Grands Crus, every one of them world famous, and enough quality premiers crus vineyards to lead some to say that there is not a bad parcel in the village, Vosne-Romanée is the image of the Cote de Nuits and drives the wine world’s imagination to a style of Pinot Noir that, really, only exists here. For a thousand years, the value of Vosne’s grand cru vineyards has been understood and appreciated. It’s hardly surprising that, unlike most of the rest of Burgundy’s vineyards which are parceled and shared by numerous winemakers, these noble plots have for the most part always been singly-held.

Produced in the communes of and Flagey-Échezeaux, appellation Vosne-Romanée includes 14 premiers crus and 6 grands crus.

Wine

The color red in Vosne-Romanée takes on a different meaning than it has in most other Burgundy appellations. The wines can vary from pure ruby to black tulip and are often quite intense. Or they can be a fiery red darkening to garnet. One of the rules in Pinot Noir appreciation is that, if you are looking for color, you have come to the wrong place. Vosne-Romanée may be the exception. Fruit over spice is the classic nose with strawberry and blackcurrant sitting atop cinnamon and almond. These youthful aromas evolve with age into grown-up notes of cherries in brandy, leather and fur, woodland scents and game. You expect the wine to be a velvety and refined Pinot Noir at its most elegant IT can be a little austere in its youth but the mature wine is fleshy, voluptuous.

Terroirs

The vines grow at altitudes of 250 to 310 meters and face east or, in some cases, slightly south of east. The plots growing the village appellation lie either at the top of the slope or at its foot on either side of the grand cru climats and in some cases reaching the same altitude. The soils are limestone mixed with clayey marls. Topsoil varies from very shallow to a meter deep.

Color

Red wines only - Pinot Noir

Production surface area

1 hectare (ha) = 2.4 acres

153.60 ha (including 56.64 ha Premier Cru)

Food

Powerful and tannic yet voluptuous and meaty leads us to match strong flavors and fibrous textures here. Good-quality poultry, oven-roasted lamb, roasted game birds are obvious choices. But a thick cut steak will match the fullness as well. And spicy poultry preparations are surprisingly well-suited. A less obvious match. but one that works well, is flash sauté of raw foie gras. These wines will stand up to intensely-flavoured cheeses such as Époisses, Langres, Saint-Florentin, or Aisy Cendré. And every wine goes well as Cîteaux.

Appellations

The commune of Vosne-Romanée produces 6 grands crus and the commune of Flagey-Échezeaux 2 grands crus. On the label, the names Vosne-Romanée and Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru may be followed by the name of a specific vineyard, known as a climat.

The following climats are classified as premier cru:

Au-dessus des Malconsorts

Aux Brulées

Aux Malconsorts

Aux Raignots

Clos des Réas

Cros Parantoux

En Orveaux

La Croix Rameau

Les Beaux Monts

Les Chaumes

Les Gaudichots

Les Petits Monts

Les Rouges

Les Suchots

The following climats are village wines from a single vineyard, known as a lieu-dit:

Au-Dessus de la Rivière

Aux Champs Perdrix

Aux Communes

Aux Genaivrières

Aux Jachées

Aux Ormes

Aux Raviolles

Aux Réas

Aux Saules

Bossières

Champs Goudins

La Colombière

La Croix Blanche

La Montagne

Le Pré de la Folie

Les Barreaux

Les Beaux Monts Hauts Rougeots

Les Chalandins

Les Damaudes

Les Jacquines

Les Violettes

Maizières Basses

Maizières Hautes

Porte-Feuilles ou Murailles du Clos

Vigneux

Village

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