The wines of Domaine Jamet are seen as a bench mark of Syrah and that of Cote Rotie. This family Domaine has 25 vineyards spread throughout the Cote Brune and Cote Blonde which Jean Paul knows intimately.
The grapes are partially destemmed (80%) before the parcels are vinified separately in a mixture of barrels for 24 months. 20% new, 20% one-year, 20% two-year, 40% three-year old oak barrels. Blue and black fruits, olives, cherries, smoke and violets with cracked black pepper.
Focused, methodical and strikingly fluid, this has slow momentum that builds and builds. Layers of complexity that punches all the right buttons, exceedingly coveted and wildly delicious.
94 Points James Suckling
With dark spices and stones, this is quite savory and has some cocoa powder, orange zest, graphite and less pepper and spices; it sits more in the earthy and stony spectrum. The palate’s a very smooth, elegant and contained impression, showing fine, supple and velvet-like texture, sweet fruit, great depth and finally a pristine plum and dark-cherry-stone finish. Very fine now, but this has the pedigree for 15+ years.
94 Points Vinous
Inky ruby. A vibrant spice- and mineral-accented bouquet evokes ripe black raspberry and blueberry, candied flowers, incense and peppery spices. Sweet, palate-staining red and blue fruit compote and violet pastille flavors are complicated by notes of cracked pepper and bitter chocolate, with a spicecake nuance gaining strength in the glass. Velvety, pliant tannins add gentle grip to a strikingly long and incisive finish that strongly repeats the floral and mineral notes.