Vintage Jamet Cote Rotie 2015

Domaine Jamet is a producer which easily earn Wine Icon status as one of the most important and hallowed producers in the Rhone. Jamet is famous for making their wines with absolute regard for the land it is grown on; organic in many ways with an underlying respect for nature. The wines are made in a relatively traditional manner with some whole bunch pressing and are partly aged in old barrels in order to not have much of an influence on the purity of the fruit. All the grapes that go into their Cote Rotie come from the slate soiled terroir, known in the Northern Rhone as Côte Brune.

Jamet’s Cote Rotie shouldn’t need an introduction. 7 years in, this wine is starting to show its real self, now drinkable but also age-worthy. The wine is violet in colour with a nose of strong blackberry, liquorice, smoky bacon and potpourri; all alongside a strong mineral overlay. In the mouth it is seamless! Broad and deeply concentrated black and blue fruits, cassis liqueur and a punch of exotic spices. The wine finished with repeating mineral, smoke and dark fruit layers. Noticeable but super-fine tannins and superb tenacity to a long, elongated finish. For some, a once in a lifetime experience to smell and taste one of the Rhone masters. Bravo!