Domaine Jamet

Jean-Paul Jamet began making wine alongside his father Joseph in 1976, having left school to work with his parents in the family business. Joseph's first vintage was 1976, and in the 1980s he began expanding the property near Ampuis, which remained small, with just 6ha planted. Jean-Paul's brother Jean-Luc worked alongside him in those decades: the brothers shared the farming and winemaking tasks, and the wines carried both their names as Jean-Paul & Jean-Luc Jamet. Corinne Jamet joined the operation in the early 1990s and mainly manages the front office of the domaine. Jean-Paul and Corinne's elder son Loïc studied viticulture and oenology, spent several months in South Africa, and now takes part in decision-making alongside his parents. By February 2016 Loïc had decided to join the family business, and the family was trying to acquire new parcels, including some in Condrieu. The family team is Corinne, Jean-Paul, Fanny and Loïc Jamet.

• 1976: Jean-Paul Jamet begins making wine with his father Joseph; the Côte Brune cuvée is first made the same year
• Early 1990s: Corinne Jamet joins the operation
• 2015: Loïc Jamet begins vinifying the domaine's Condrieu, supported by Jean-Paul

The domaine lies on a plateau known as Le Vallin, four kilometres from the village of Ampuis, with a view of Mont Blanc and the Alps in good weather. Its vines grow on steep hillsides set out on terraces, commonly called chayets, over a sub-soil mainly composed of schist and to a lesser extent granite. The Côte Rôtie is produced from twenty parcels, fifteen of them in different locations: Fongeant, Côte Blonde, Landonne, Côte Rozier, Plomb, Chavaroche, Moutonnes, Lésardes, Gerine, Truchet, Leyat, Bonnivières, Côte Bodin, Tartaras and Rochins. Most of the Jamet vines are on the brown schist soils of the Côte Brune, which usually gives more structured wines than the granitic Côte Blonde. The Condrieu comes from the Vernon and Côte Chatillon lieux-dits on granite, and the red Côtes du Rhône is an assemblage of parcels on the upper slopes of the commune of Ampuis. Jean-Paul considers that he and his team practise sustainable viticulture, and the vines are worked with a minimum of intervention.

• Le Vallin plateau, four kilometres from Ampuis; steep terraced chayets on mainly schist with some granite
• Côte Rôtie parcels span fifteen locations including Fongeant, Côte Blonde, Landonne, Chavaroche, Moutonnes, Gerine, Truchet and Leyat
• Condrieu from Vernon and Côte Chatillon on granite

The assemblage is a key word for Jean-Paul Jamet, who often says that "some parcels provide elegance, while others determine the structure: it is the assemblage that makes everything bigger". The Côte Rôtie is made essentially from whole bunches with a maceration of about three weeks, then matured for 22 months in barrels of which 15% are new. The Côte Brune and La Landonne cuvées are 100% whole bunches with about three weeks of maceration and 24 months in barrels, while the Fructus Voluptas harvest is mostly destemmed and matured for 16 months in oak barrels used for several earlier vintages. Wine Spectator's James Molesworth described the Jamet style in 2010 as "acid-driven, with mouthwatering iron and sanguine notes". At that time Jamet held to the one estate-one wine theory, yet made the separate Côte Brune bottling every year in homage to his father. For the 1990 vintage the grapes were lightly crushed but not destemmed, and the wine was aged in 228-litre pieces, 600-litre demi-muids and larger casks, with only about 20% of the barrels new.

• Côte Rôtie: essentially whole bunches, about three weeks of maceration, 22 months in barrels of which 15% are new
• Côte Brune: 100% whole bunches, 24 months in barrels of which 30% are new barrels
• Condrieu Vernillon: 100% Viognier matured for 10 months in jars

The domaine's range spans Côte Rôtie, Condrieu, Côtes du Rhône, IGP Collines Rhodaniennes and Vin de France. The Côte Rôtie is the assemblage cuvée, with a suggested ageing window of 15 to 25 years. Côte Rôtie Côte Brune is the only plot selection in the domaine, first made in 1976, with an ageing window of 20 to 30 years. Côte Rôtie La Landonne comes from the domaine's La Landonne plot and was bottled only for the 2018, 2019 and 2022 vintages. Côte Rôtie Fructus Voluptas is made for more immediate pleasure from the fruit while preserving its ageing potential; its ageing window is 12 to 18 years. Côtes du Rhône Équivoque, first made in the 2015 vintage, comes from Côtes du Rhône plots that border the Côte Rôtie appellation. The range also includes a red and a white Côtes du Rhône, an IGP Syrah Collines Rhodaniennes, the Vin de France Les Plaisirs d'Harys, a 100% Syrah made in the 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2023 vintages, and a Vin de France Viognier produced in 2016 and 2023.

• Côte Rôtie cuvées: Côte Rôtie, Côte Brune, La Landonne (2018, 2019 and 2022 only) and Fructus Voluptas
• Condrieu Vernillon: 100% Viognier from Vernon and Côte Chatillon, vinified by Loïc Jamet since 2015
• Côtes du Rhône Red, Côtes du Rhône White (mainly Marsanne and Viognier) and Côtes du Rhône Équivoque (first made 2015)
• IGP Syrah Collines Rhodaniennes, Vin de France Les Plaisirs d'Harys and Vin de France Viognier

In 2010 Wine Spectator's James Molesworth called the domaine revered by Rhône aficionados for producing distinctive, long-lived Syrah bottlings, and ranked the Côte Brune, with its very limited production of usually just a few hundred cases, among the Rhône's most sought-after collectibles. In 2019 Decanter named the 1990 Côte-Rôtie a Wine Legend, writing that Jamet's Côte-Rôtie had already attracted attention with the 1985 vintage and that 1990 was "a major leap forward".

• Wine Spectator (2010): revered by Rhône aficionados for distinctive, long-lived Syrah
• Decanter Wine Legend (2019): Côte-Rôtie 1990

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