The Winery Henri Jayer of Côte de Nuits of Burgundy

Winery Henri Jayer - Bourgogne Passe-tout-grains
The winery offers 11 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.6.
It is ranked in the top 2 of the estates of Burgundy.
It is located in Côte de Nuits in the region of Burgundy

The Winery Henri Jayer is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 11 wines for sale in of Côte de Nuits to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Henri Jayer wines

Looking for the best Winery Henri Jayer wines in Côte de Nuits among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Henri Jayer wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Henri Jayer wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Henri Jayer

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Henri Jayer

How Winery Henri Jayer wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of baked marrow bones, pork tenderloin with chorizo and peppers or roast venison with green pepper sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Henri Jayer

On the nose the red wine of Winery Henri Jayer. often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of black cherries, leather or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Henri Jayer. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Henri Jayer

  • 1983With an average score of 4.90/5
  • 1992With an average score of 4.90/5
  • 1988With an average score of 4.90/5
  • 1996With an average score of 4.90/5
  • 1990With an average score of 4.83/5
  • 1999With an average score of 4.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Henri Jayer.

  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Côte de Nuits

The Côte de Nuits is the northern half of the Côte d'Or wine region in Burgundy (the Southern half being the Côte de Beaune). It specializes in red wines made from Pinot noir grapes, the most famous and expensive of which come from the grand crus of Vosne-Romanée and Chambolle-Musigny. About 95% of all wines produced in the Côte de Nuits are made from a single grape variety: Pinot Noir. The district is widely regarded as the spiritual home of Pinot Noir, a reputation strongly reinforced by such high quality wines as the Grand Cru Romanée-Conti.

The remaining 5% of Côte de Nuits wines are white, made from Burgundy's other star grape, Chardonnay. The district is not known for its white wines - the Côte de Beaune is the white wine mecca of Burgundy - but the few wines that are produced there are generally of very high quality. The finest are produced under the Vougeot Premier Cru appellation, but a small number come from the Musigny Grand Cru Vineyard. While the Côte de Beaune, to the south, is larger and more prolific, the Côte de Nuits favours quality over quantity.

It is home to some of the world's finest red wine vineyards and includes 24 of Burgundy's 33 Grand Crus. The main town is Nuits-Saint-Georges, known as Nuits until it adopted the name of its most favoured vineyard, Les Saint-Georges, in the late 19th century. Although located at the southern end of the coast, Nuits-Saint-Georges is less than 16 km from the northernmost vineyard of the Côte de Nuits, at Marsannay, which demonstrates the small Size of the area in question. Tracing the limestone spine of the Côte d'Or escarpment, the Côte de Nuits is Long and thin, measuring only 24 km from end to end and 3.

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Discover the grape variety: Macabeu

The white Macabeu is a grape variety originating from Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by large bunches, and grapes of large to medium size. Macabeu Blanc can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Henri Jayer and wines from the region

Sotheby’s hits record wine and spirits auction sales in 2021

Sotheby’s said wine and spirits auction sales rose by around 44% to $132m (£99.6m) in 2021, boosted by record prices, fresh partnerships and a wave of new buyers. Its figures also offered more evidence of a strong fine wine market this year. Wine represented $111m of Sotheby’s 2021 auction sales, with famous Burgundy labels dominating a list of best-selling lots. Other highlights included a recent sale of Châteaux Rauzan-Ségla and Canon wines, sourced direct from the Chanel-owned estates in Bord ...

Cambridge University’s King’s College earns £1.3m by auctioning off rare Burgundies

The ‘Generations of Jayer’ collection included 42 lots of some of the finest Burgundies ever bottled. A 12-bottle case of Grand Cru Henri Jayer for Georges Jayer, Echézeaux 1999 from Côte de Nuits led the charge, selling for £100,000 at the London auction. The second priciest lot was the Henri Jayer for Georges Jayer, Echézeaux 2001, which received a winning bid of £85,000. Henri Jayer was dubbed the ‘godfather of Burgundy’ after pioneering a range of key innovations in the region. He believed t ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

The word of the wine: Empyreumatic

Families of smells and aromas related to smoke, burnt, and more generally to roasting.