Maison Louis Jadot

Maison Louis Jadot dates its story to 1826, when the Beaune Premier Cru Clos des Ursules was purchased. Three decades later, in 1859, Louis Henri Denis Jadot founded the house and laid the foundations of a family-owned domaine, developing a négociant business focused on selling the wines in Northern European markets; his descendants followed him at the head of the family business. In 1900, under Louis Jean Baptiste Jadot, the house bought numerous vineyards, including parcels of Corton Pougets and Chevalier Montrachet Les Demoiselles. In 1945, after meeting the founder of the Kobrand Corporation, Louis Auguste Jadot, then head of the family business, decided to export the wines to the UK and the USA. André Gagey joined in 1954 as Louis Auguste Jadot's deputy. Management remained within the family until Louis Auguste Jadot (d. 1962), grandson of the founder; his widow then appointed André Gagey managing director. In 1985 Madame Jadot sold the business to the family of Rudy Kopf, the US importer of the house's wines and owners of the Kobrand Corporation. Pierre-Henry Gagey joined the house in 1985, while it was headed by his father, André, and became President on André's retirement in 1992. His son Thibault joined in 2014, and in 2023, after 31 years running the house, Pierre-Henry Gagey stepped down as president.

• 1826: purchase of Beaune Premier Cru Clos des Ursules; 1859: Louis Henri Denis Jadot founds the house
• 1945: export to the UK and the USA follows the meeting with Kobrand's founder
• 1985: sale to the Kopf family (Kobrand Corporation) and purchase of Clair-Daü
• 1992 to 2023: Pierre-Henry Gagey President; as of 2023 Thomas Seiter runs the house as CEO with Thibault Gagey as General Manager

Thomas Seiter is President, Thibault Gagey is Managing Director, Frédéric Barnier is Technical Director and Bruno Dolymnyj is responsible for viticulture. As of 2023, Thomas Seiter runs the house as CEO with Thibault Gagey as General Manager. Jacques Lardière, trained as a biologist rather than an oenologist, headed the production team from 1970, with 1971 as his first test vintage. Frédéric Barnier joined Jadot in 2010 and succeeded Lardière as winemaker in 2012. As of 2021, Thibault Gagey headed the Résonance project in Oregon.

• Thomas Seiter: President (CEO as of 2023)
• Thibault Gagey: Managing Director; joined the house in 2014
• Frédéric Barnier: Technical Director; joined in 2010 and succeeded Jacques Lardière as winemaker in 2012
• Jacques Lardière: headed the production team from 1970 until Barnier succeeded him in 2012

The domaines of Maison Louis Jadot cover 154 hectares in the Côte d'Or, the Mâconnais and Beaujolais. Héritiers Louis Jadot is the historic property of the Jadot family, comprising Beaune Premier Cru Clos des Ursules, Corton Pougets Grand Cru, Corton Charlemagne Grand Cru, Chevalier Montrachet Les Demoiselles Grand Cru, Beaune Premier Cru Clos des Couchereaux, Beaune Premier Cru Les Boucherottes and Pernand-Vergelesses Clos de la Croix de Pierre, among others. Domaine Louis Jadot has grown since its first purchases in 1985, and its holdings include Chambertin Clos de Bèze, Bonnes Mares, Clos Vougeot and Musigny Grand Crus, Chambolle Musigny Premier Cru Les Amoureuses, Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru Clos Saint Jacques, Corton Grèves Grand Cru, Savigny-les-Beaune Premier Cru La Dominode, Meursault Premier Cru Genevrières, Pommard Premier Cru Rugiens, Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru les Folatières and Santenay Clos de Malte. In 1985 Jadot also acquired Clair-Daü, which brought Chambertin Clos de Bèze, Chapelle Chambertin, Bonnes Mares, Musigny and Clos Vougeot, along with Premier Cru parcels including a piece of Les Amoureuses and a section of Clos Saint-Jacques. Decanter's Michael Apstein called it likely the most significant transfer of prized vineyards in modern Burgundy history, one that turned Jadot from a Côte de Beaune domaine into a major grower spanning the entire Côte d'Or. The Gagey vineyards have belonged to André Gagey's family for several generations and include Clos Saint-Denis Grand Cru, Echézeaux Grand Cru, Beaune Premier Cru Les Grèves Blanc, Savigny les Beaune Premier Cru Clos des Guettes, Nuits Saint Georges Premier Cru les Boudots and Beaune Premier Cru les Cras. Jadot acquired the Prieur-Brunet vineyards in 2017, mainly in Santenay, including 5 hectares in Santenay Premier Cru la Maladière planted with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Under a historical link with the Duc de Magenta, one of Burgundy's great families, Maison Louis Jadot has for many years managed the vinification and marketing of Puligny-Montrachet. Château des Jacques has belonged to the house since 1996 and comprises 69 hectares in Moulin-à-Vent, Morgon and Fleurie, with terroirs such as Rochegrès, Carquelin and Côte du Py. In 2008 Jadot acquired Domaine Ferret, an 18-hectare property in Pouilly-Fuissé. In 2013 the house began the Résonance Vineyard in Oregon with 13 hectares; the property now covers 55 hectares. As of May 2021, Jadot had begun the three-year transition period after which all its Côte d'Or vineyards will be certified organic. The house created its own plant nursery in 1995, based on a collection of old Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vines, and is a member of the Association to Safeguard the Diversity of Burgundian Grape Varieties.

• Héritiers Louis Jadot: the family's historic property, including Clos des Ursules, Corton Pougets and Chevalier Montrachet Les Demoiselles
• Domaine Louis Jadot: built from 1985, including Chambertin Clos de Bèze, Bonnes Mares, Clos Vougeot and Musigny
• Famille Gagey: Gagey family vineyards including Clos Saint-Denis and Echézeaux
• Château des Jacques (1996, 69 hectares), Domaine Ferret (2008, 18 hectares), Prieur-Brunet (2017) and Résonance in Oregon (2013, now 55 hectares)

As of 2021, the house made about 150 different wines, from Grand Cru to Beaujolais-Villages and Bourgogne, with annual production of 10 to 12 million bottles sold in 120 countries. Domaine bottlings are labelled Domaine Louis Jadot, Domaine Gagey or Domaine des Héritiers Louis Jadot, while a bottle with no domaine name is a négociant wine. The labels carry the image of Bacchus's head, the signature of the house.

• Beaune Premier Cru Clos des Ursules (Héritiers Louis Jadot)
• Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru (Héritiers Louis Jadot)
• Musigny, Chambertin Clos de Bèze and Chapelle Chambertin Grand Crus, and Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru Clos Saint-Jacques (Domaine Louis Jadot)
• Clos Saint-Denis Grand Cru (Famille Gagey)
• Bourgogne Couvent des Jacobins, red and white, and Beaujolais-Villages Combe aux Jacques

The Beaune winery, La Sablière, was built in 1996, and 1997 was the first vintage vinified there. It is circular, 45 metres in diameter, with 130 stainless steel tanks and wooden vats that can vinify 200 hectares and a built-in punch-down system. Since 2008 the house has vinified its regional Bourgogne Rouge and Bourgogne Blanc at a dedicated winery in the Côte Chalonnaise, at Givry. Its Beaujolais Villages is vinified at the Combe aux Jacques winery in Saint-Etienne des Ouillères. Visitors are received at 62 route de Savigny in Beaune. Macerations are long and take place in oak casks or stainless steel tanks, and maturation is also relatively long. Two complete vintages cross paths in the cellars every year. All the wines, from generic Bourgogne to Grand Cru, are matured in barrel, and 30% of the barrels are renewed each year; the Grands Crus mature in an almond-shaped area of the winery. The house created the Cadus cooperage in 1996 to make its oak barrels; the oak is seasoned outdoors for at least two years, and all appellations receive the same toast. Most of the négociant wines are vinified and matured entirely by the house, and red and white wines are bottled between March and June each year after about 18 months of maturation.

• La Sablière, Beaune: circular winery built in 1996, first vintage 1997, 130 tanks and vats
• Givry (since 2008) for regional Bourgogne; Combe aux Jacques for Beaujolais Villages
• All wines barrel-matured; 30% of barrels renewed each year; barrels from the house's Cadus cooperage (1996)

Writing in Decanter in 2010, Stephen Brook noted that by Burgundy standards Jadot wines have a reputation for being fairly extracted, and that young reds can have pronounced tannins. Jacques Lardière explained his approach in the same interview: 'I like long macerations and high temperatures because for me the role of vinification is to liberate all the molecules within the grapes and to fix them, and to do this without losing any of the typicity of the variety.' In Decanter in 2021, Michael Apstein characterised Barnier's winemaking as minimally interventional, like his predecessor's, with wines that are more precise and focused and still made to evolve with bottle age. In the same profile, Pierre-Henry Gagey estimated that 80% of Jadot's Premier and Grand Cru wines come from its own vineyards, adding: 'our soul is in the vineyard.'

Primary sources (producer's own site): https://www.louisjadot.com/en/ (home page), https://www.louisjadot.com/en/maison (house history, estates, team and winemaking, read through the site's content feed https://www.louisjadot.com/bo/wp-json/louisjadot-api/maison?lang=en), https://www.louisjadot.com/en/wines (read through https://www.louisjadot.com/bo/wp-json/louisjadot-api/vins?lang=en) and https://www.louisjadot.com/en/find-us (read through https://www.louisjadot.com/bo/wp-json/louisjadot-api/visite?lang=en). Secondary sources: Decanter (Michael Apstein, last updated 27 May 2021: https://www.decanter.com/premium/louis-jadot-producer-profile-458044/; Stephen Brook, published 2 August 2010: https://www.decanter.com/interviews/jacques-lardiere-interview-53127/) and Wine Spectator (23 October 2023: https://www.winespectator.com/articles/louis-jadot-pierre-henry-gagey-ny-wine-experience-2023). Where the producer's site and a secondary source disagree, the producer's site governs. Last verified 2026-10-14.