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$35.00The Story
Before there was even a Maison Louis Jadot, there was this vineyard. The Jadot family bought Clos des Ursules in 1826, more than three decades before founding their famous house, and it has been theirs alone ever since—a walled monopole of barely three acres tucked inside the Vignes Franches premier cru at the southern edge of Beaune, on land the Ursuline nuns worked for roughly two centuries (convent founded 1626, plot sold to Jadot family in 1826). This is the founding stone of the whole house. The 1999 had the luck of being born in one of the great red Burgundy vintages, ripe and silky and beautifully balanced from the start, and premier crus like this one were built to go the distance. At better than a quarter-century old it is fully mature but still has flesh and depth—the more generous of these two sibling bottles. Pull the cork now.
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Before there was even a Maison Louis Jadot, there was this vineyard. The Jadot family bought Clos des Ursules in 1826, more than three decades before founding their famous house, and it has been theirs alone ever since—a walled monopole of barely three acres tucked inside the Vignes Franches premier cru at the southern edge of Beaune, on land the Ursuline nuns worked for roughly two centuries (convent founded 1626, plot sold to Jadot family in 1826). This is the founding stone of the whole house. The 1999 had the luck of being born in one of the great red Burgundy vintages, ripe and silky and beautifully balanced from the start, and premier crus like this one were built to go the distance. At better than a quarter-century old it is fully mature but still has flesh and depth—the more generous of these two sibling bottles. Pull the cork now.
