Emmanuel Rouget

Domaine Emmanuel Rouget makes its wines in a cellar in the commune of Flagey-Échézeaux. Emmanuel Rouget is the nephew and protégé of Henri Jayer (d. 2006). Rouget was responsible for producing the wine from the Jayer family vines. Through the 2001 vintage Henri Jayer still made about 1,000 bottles of Vosne-Romanée Cros Parantoux; by 2004 all wines made from Jayer's vineyards were sold under the Domaine Emmanuel Rouget label. The last bottles from Henri Jayer's personal cellar, consigned by his daughters Lydie and Dominique to Baghera Wines for an auction in Geneva announced in April 2018, were finished with capsules and labels under the daughters' supervision along with Emmanuel Rouget.

• Cellar: Flagey-Échézeaux
• Emmanuel Rouget: nephew and protégé of Henri Jayer (d. 2006)
• Through the 2001 vintage Henri Jayer still made about 1,000 bottles of Cros Parantoux; by 2004 all wines from Jayer's vineyards were sold under the Domaine Emmanuel Rouget label
• Rouget and Jayer's daughters, Lydie and Dominique, supervised the capsules and labels on the last bottles from Jayer's personal cellar, consigned to Baghera Wines for a Geneva auction announced in April 2018

As of January 2017 a new generation was at the helm of the domaine. Emmanuel Rouget's son Guillaume took over as winemaker from the 2011 vintage, and his other son, Nicolas, had been the acting chef de culture since 2008. Guillaume Rouget told Decanter that the domaine was "working with a limited production."

• Guillaume Rouget: winemaker from the 2011 vintage
• Nicolas Rouget: acting chef de culture since 2008

By 2004 the Jayer vineyards whose wines were sold under the Domaine Emmanuel Rouget label included the grand cru Échézeaux and the premier cru Vosne-Romanée Beaumonts, along with the premier cru Vosne-Romanée Cros Parantoux, whose vines were then 50 years old. Cros Parantoux is a 2.5-acre premier cru climat adjacent to grand cru Richebourg that Henri Jayer began acquiring and replanting in the 1950s; he cleared it from brush to plant vines in 1953. The domaine also makes a Nuits-St.-Georges village wine.

• Grand cru: Échézeaux
• Premier cru: Vosne-Romanée Beaumonts; Vosne-Romanée Cros Parantoux
• Cros Parantoux: 2.5-acre premier cru climat adjacent to grand cru Richebourg; cleared from brush by Henri Jayer to plant vines in 1953
• Village: Nuits-St.-Georges

Wines made under the Domaine Emmanuel Rouget label include Vosne-Romanée Premier Cru Cros Parantoux, Échézeaux Grand Cru and Nuits-St.-Georges village. At a tasting in the Flagey-Échézeaux cellar while the 2002 wines were aging in barriques, Rouget poured the Nuits-St.-Georges village and opened a 1999 Nuits-St.-Georges.

• Vosne-Romanée Premier Cru Cros Parantoux
• Échézeaux Grand Cru
• Nuits-St.-Georges (village)

Decanter wrote in January 2017 that the wines of Domaines Emmanuel Rouget and Georges Jayer "are considered among the most elegant produced in the Côte d'Or." Tasting the 2002 Nuits-St.-Georges in the Flagey-Échézeaux cellar, Henri Jayer said: "It's fruity and it persists on the palate. It has good acidity, with good length on the finish." On the same visit Emmanuel Rouget said: "The 2002s have more finesse and charm and they are more complete than the 1999s." Wine Spectator's Per-Henrik Mansson described the 2002 Échézeaux as round and elegant.

• Decanter (2017): "among the most elegant produced in the Côte d'Or"
• Henri Jayer on the 2002 Nuits-St.-Georges: "It's fruity and it persists on the palate."
• Wine Spectator (2004): the 2002 Échézeaux round and elegant

Primary sources (producer's own site): none; no producer website could be confirmed on 2026-09-23. Secondary sources: Decanter, https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/rouget-jayer-us-importer-change-352603/; Wine Spectator, https://www.winespectator.com/articles/henri-jayer-2098; Wine Spectator, https://www.winespectator.com/articles/henri-jayer-burgundy-auction. Last verified 2026-10-12.