Domaine Bruno Clair Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Clos Saint Jacques 2023

Grape

100% Pinot Noir

Tasting notes

A deep garnet-red wine with balanced red fruit aromas — cherry and raspberry with spice and undergrowth notes, gaining hints of truffle and liquorice with air. Elegant and structured, with fine tannins and a fresh finish; a very complex, layered wine of real length, aged 18–20 months in oak, around 35% new. Clos Saint-Jacques is widely regarded as one of Burgundy’s finest Premier Crus, often spoken of in the same breath as the neighbouring Grand Cru Chambertin-Clos de Bèze.

More About The Winery

Domaine Bruno Clair is based in Marsannay-la-Côte, at the northern end of the Côte de Nuits, and traces its roots to 1919, when Bruno Clair’s grandfather Joseph Clair married Marguerite Daü, whose family worked vineyards in Marsannay — the union that founded the Clair-Daü estate, later expanded by Bruno’s parents Bernard and Geneviève. Bruno Clair struck out on his own in 1979, making him the sixth generation of the family in Burgundian winemaking.

Since then the domaine has grown through strategic acquisitions — Chambolle-Musigny in 1990, Aloxe-Corton and Pernand-Vergelesses in 1993, and further parcels since — to reach roughly 27 hectares spread across eight villages of the Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune. Beyond its home base in Marsannay, the domaine’s holdings run from village and Premier Cru Gevrey-Chambertin (including the Clos du Fonteny monopole, Petite Chapelle, Les Cazetiers and Clos Saint-Jacques) through Morey-Saint-Denis, Chambolle-Musigny, Vosne-Romanée, Savigny-lès-Beaune, Aloxe-Corton and Pernand-Vergelesses, up to Grand Cru sites including Bonnes-Mares, Chambertin-Clos de Bèze and Corton-Charlemagne.

In the vineyard and cellar the domaine is known for meticulous, low-intervention work — rigorous sorting, restrained extraction and judicious, vintage-adjusted use of new oak under longtime cellar master Philippe Brun, with sustainable, largely organic-style farming. Today it is a family operation: Bruno’s wife Isabelle joined in 2005 to manage administration and sales, and the couple’s three children now run the estate day to day — Edouard overseeing vines and vinification, Margaux handling vineyard work and shipping, and Arthur running the cellar.