…such as Domaine de la Romanée Conti, Domaine Leroy and Henri Jayer is extremely limited, there has been a noticeable broadening in demand for other producers such as Armand Rousseau, Georges Roumier and up and coming domaines such as Domaine de la Vougeraie and Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair. As with the UK, our Asian offices are seeing more energy, demand and trading for top clarets with an emphasis on older vintages with excellent provenance. Bordeaux is unique in the world …
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Saunier, 78, built the business to include such venerable estates as Henri Jayer, Chateau Rayas, and Domaine Leroy. She has been hailed as a " rock star of the wine world " and an "importer extraordinaire." She and many of her producers will be featured in a documentary entitled "A Year in Burgundy," due out next year on DVD.
The buyers are Gregory Castells and Kate Laughlin. Castells had a career in wine service in restaurants, including …
…out loud when I saw the wine. I mean really - to have the opportunity to drink a bottle of wine by Henri Jayer is an amazing thing. Jayer started farming vineyards, mostly in Vosne-Romanée, for 50 years or so. He never bottled all that he harvested, as a lot of the land he worked was owned by others, but he of course bottled his own wine too, and it was legendary during his time. Prices went through the roof after Jayer died in 2006 . For his top wines - the iconic Crox Parantoux…
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…even drank on his deathbed, a 1959 Richebourg Grand Cru produced by the legendary Henri Jayer. Today in the U.S., that wine sells for over $ 7000 per bottle. Yutaka's estranged son, and apparently only living relative, is Shizuku Kanzaki .
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I remember tasting some of Henri Jayer's (a canonized name in top Burgundy history) wines in the 80′s and wondering if I would ever enjoy as fulfilling a bottle of wine in my life, lamenting my dismissal of Burgundy might minimize those chances while protecting me from certain pricey buying miscues and insipid wines. These Jayer-like wines must have been the elixirs that drove enthusiasts like Allen Meadows, author of Burghound, to devote their lives to understanding the complicated …
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CARROLL: Henri Jayer. [ed. Note: French winemaster, Henri Jayer, was the most renowned Burgundy maker of his generation ]
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RED: Please tell me a little bit about the wine we are featuring today.
CARROLL: The 2009 Boxcar Pinot Noir is an elegant wine the pairs well with food and should age gracefully. Like most good Pinot Noir, it is built around its acid, not its tannins so it offers great purity and minerality.
RED: What …
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CARROLL: Henri Jayer. [ed. Note: French winemaster, Henri Jayer, was the most renowned Burgundy maker of his generation ]
RED: Who do you make wine for?
CARROLL: Myself.
RED: Please tell me a little bit about the wine we are featuring today.
CARROLL: The 2009 Boxcar Pinot Noir is an elegant wine the pairs well with food and should age gracefully. Like most good Pinot Noir, it is built around its acid, not its tannins so it offers great purity and minerality.
RED: What is …
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