DOMAINE CLAUDIE JOBARD Rully 'En Villerange' 2024 Bottle

Description

Claudie Jobard’s father, Roger, developed this estate in the 1970s, buying and planting land in Rully. Most of the vines date from this period and are now over 40 years old and producing glorious wine. As well as making top class Rully (and Pommard from her mother’s side), Claudie not only continues the Jobard nursery business supplying grafted vines to growers but also, as a qualified oenologist, makes the wine for Remoissenet, the négociant based in Beaune.

Claudie harvested ten days later in 2024 than in 2023, starting on 16th September. She is very happy with both the quality and quantity (52 hl/ha) of the white wines but the pinot noir was affected by poor flowering with the yields ranging from 16 to 30 hl/ha. All the wines are aged in 228 litre barrels with 15-25% new oak. The whites are fresh and vibrant whilst the reds are highly attractive, medium-bodied wines with masses of delicious, red berry fruit.

Rully 'En Villerange' is a fuller-bodied, richer wine from 47 year old vines in the south of the appellation adjoining Mercurey where there is more clay in the soil and the fruit ripens a few days earlier. A dense, concentrated wine with honeyed fruit and a generous texture, balanced by excellent acidity.

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While Claudie Jobard is deeply committed to the health of her vineyards and follows many sustainable practices, the estate is not certified organic.

Claudie manages her vines using lutte raisonnée (reasoned struggle). This means she avoids synthetic chemicals whenever possible and focuses on traditional methods - such as ploughing the soil instead of using weedkillers - but she chooses to retain the flexibility to intervene if a difficult vintage (like the damp conditions often seen in Burgundy) threatens the crop.

This approach is very common among high-quality Burgundy producers who want to maintain the health of their old vines while ensuring they can produce a crop every year. The focus remains on the integrity of the soil and the longevity of the 40+ year-old vines rather than the official certification.