Hautes Côtes de Nuits blanc 2024 Domaine Olivier Jouan
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Product Details
- Format
- 75 cl
- Region
- Bourgogne
- Vintage
- 2024
- Ranking
- REGIONAL
- Appellation
- HAUTES COTES DE NUITS
- Degree
- 13.5°
- Color
- White
- Country
- FRANCE
- Author
- Adrien
A Chardonnay with white floral notes, citrus and minerality from Domaine Olivier Jouan. Fresh, precise and very approachable.
The Hautes Côtes de Nuits Blanc 2024 from Domaine Olivier Jouan is one of the rare and beautiful surprises that the Côte de Nuits reserves for lovers of great Burgundian Chardonnays. In an appellation dominated by more than 95% Pinot Noir, this white from vines cultivated in organic agriculture in the heart of the Hautes Côtes de Nuits is a precious curiosity, and a demonstration that fruit quality and textural finesse can reach, in the hands of a demanding vigneron, a level far exceeding its rank and price.
Terroir and domaine
Olivier Jouan established himself in Arcenant, a small village nestled in the heart of the Hautes Côtes de Nuits, in a seventeenth-century house whose cellar carved into the rock forms the heart of his domaine. A sixth-generation vigneron from Morey-Saint-Denis, whose great négociant houses, led by Bouchard and Drouhin, once competed for his family's grapes, he was the first in his family to vinify and bottle his own wines, beginning with the 1999 vintage. Trained at the Beaune wine school, he manages his 8.5-hectare vineyard alone with absolute rigour and demanding standards: hand-worked vines, green harvesting to limit yields, strict selection at harvest, and a natural organic approach without official certification, out of deep conviction and without need for administrative validation. His Hautes Côtes de Nuits Blanc, made 100% from Chardonnay, benefits from the same meticulous attention as his Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru, Chambolle-Musigny and Morey-Saint-Denis cuvées. The altitude of the Hautes Côtes, the limestone soils and the natural freshness of the back slopes confer upon it an aromatic precision and tension that make it an ideal introduction to the domaine's spare and direct style.
Tasting profile
The colour is pale yellow with green reflections, brilliant and limpid, displaying beautiful clarity. The nose is of remarkable frankness and purity, with aromas of fresh white fruit, apple, pear and white peach unfolding into delicate floral notes of acacia and hawthorn, with a hint of hazelnut and a chalky, tense minerality that bears witness to the limestone imprint of the Hautes Côtes terroir. On the palate, fruit quality and textural finesse strike immediately. The attack is lively and clean, driven by fresh, well-integrated acidity that structures a palate that is at once light and generous. The texture is silky and precise, the balance remarkable, and the long, fruity and mineral finish pleasantly extends the sensation of purity and naturalness. A Chardonnay both powerful and fresh, direct and sincere, to be enjoyed with pleasure in its youth or kept for three to five years.
Food and wine pairing
This Hautes Côtes de Nuits Blanc will pair beautifully with scallops sautéed in brown butter, gravlax salmon with fresh herbs, trout with almonds, fresh pasta with cream and wild mushrooms, roasted Bresse chicken or asparagus and parmesan risotto. It will also find fine harmony with soft cheeses such as Chaource or fresh local goat cheese from the Hautes Côtes. Served between 10 and 12°C, it will reveal all the freshness and precision of a Chardonnay from the back slopes of the Côte de Nuits, rare and endearing.
Terroir and domaine
Olivier Jouan established himself in Arcenant, a small village nestled in the heart of the Hautes Côtes de Nuits, in a seventeenth-century house whose cellar carved into the rock forms the heart of his domaine. A sixth-generation vigneron from Morey-Saint-Denis, whose great négociant houses, led by Bouchard and Drouhin, once competed for his family's grapes, he was the first in his family to vinify and bottle his own wines, beginning with the 1999 vintage. Trained at the Beaune wine school, he manages his 8.5-hectare vineyard alone with absolute rigour and demanding standards: hand-worked vines, green harvesting to limit yields, strict selection at harvest, and a natural organic approach without official certification, out of deep conviction and without need for administrative validation. His Hautes Côtes de Nuits Blanc, made 100% from Chardonnay, benefits from the same meticulous attention as his Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru, Chambolle-Musigny and Morey-Saint-Denis cuvées. The altitude of the Hautes Côtes, the limestone soils and the natural freshness of the back slopes confer upon it an aromatic precision and tension that make it an ideal introduction to the domaine's spare and direct style.
Tasting profile
The colour is pale yellow with green reflections, brilliant and limpid, displaying beautiful clarity. The nose is of remarkable frankness and purity, with aromas of fresh white fruit, apple, pear and white peach unfolding into delicate floral notes of acacia and hawthorn, with a hint of hazelnut and a chalky, tense minerality that bears witness to the limestone imprint of the Hautes Côtes terroir. On the palate, fruit quality and textural finesse strike immediately. The attack is lively and clean, driven by fresh, well-integrated acidity that structures a palate that is at once light and generous. The texture is silky and precise, the balance remarkable, and the long, fruity and mineral finish pleasantly extends the sensation of purity and naturalness. A Chardonnay both powerful and fresh, direct and sincere, to be enjoyed with pleasure in its youth or kept for three to five years.
Food and wine pairing
This Hautes Côtes de Nuits Blanc will pair beautifully with scallops sautéed in brown butter, gravlax salmon with fresh herbs, trout with almonds, fresh pasta with cream and wild mushrooms, roasted Bresse chicken or asparagus and parmesan risotto. It will also find fine harmony with soft cheeses such as Chaource or fresh local goat cheese from the Hautes Côtes. Served between 10 and 12°C, it will reveal all the freshness and precision of a Chardonnay from the back slopes of the Côte de Nuits, rare and endearing.