REPEAT WINNER #21 PRIMA’s ’24 for 24’ Best Wines Of The Year

Affordable but tasty white Burgundy is an essential- like the little black dress of your wine fridge.  The successful candidate should be inexpensive enough to open any night of the week, go well with any sort of food, taste great by all itself and, just as importantly, taste authentically like fine Burgundy and not, say, a richer, oakier California Chardonnay.  You know this wine because you buy hand-truck loads every time we offer it. But, in case you don’t, this is not the Louis Jadot Bourgogne Chardonnay so readily available throughout the United States. That’s a fine bottle indeed, but not at all in the same league as this. The Jadot Bourgogne Blanc is a different, more exclusive cuvee created by the Maison expressly for restaurants and quality retailers (like us!) from top notch vineyard sources that run the length of the Burgundy appellation, but with more fruit from Meursault and other vines from the Cote de Beaune in the blend.  Also, unlike the Bourgogne Chardonnay, a good portion of the final wine spends eight months in barrel giving it a richer texture and a hint of woodsy vanilla that gives it more of a sense of gravitas, weight and helps accentuate the mineral finish.  My wife, the Rittmaster family’s final arbiter in all things Burgundy and a big fan of all of Jadot’s wines, commented last night, after we killed yet another bottle with dinner, that it ‘was weighty like a California Chardonnay, but tasted like a really nice white Burgundy,’ and ratified the purchase of a case for our own larder.  Done!  Maybe, we’re thinking, you should do the same. To make it easier, we’ve got a special price on a case!  Very highly recommended