Domaine Jaeger-Defaix - Rully 1er Cru Les Cloux 2024

The Jaeger-Defaix estate spans 6 hectares in Rully, including 4.5 hectares of Premier Cru vineyards, and has been certified organic since 2012. Hélène Jaeger-Defaix, an agricultural engineer and oenologist and the wife of Didier Defaix (of the Bernard Defaix estate in Chablis), is at the helm. A viticultural approach that involves plowing the soil and winemaking practices that respect the harvest as much as possible—with the goal of allowing the individual plots to express their full potential—is beginning to pay off. The 2017 vintage was at its best, producing wines of a classic and refined style.

Yellow and exotic fruits, citrus, toasted almonds... This wine's complex bouquet is instantly captivating, as is its impressive body on the palate. A true success.

Hélène Jaeger, the wife of Bernard Defaix, a winemaker in Chablis, took over the estate of her great-aunt Henriette Niepce in 2005. She began the transition to organic farming shortly thereafter (certification in 2009).

In 2002, Hélène Jaeger first took over a plot of Rully Premier Cru that had belonged to her great-aunt Henriette Niépce—a descendant of the famous inventor—and then the entire estate in 2005. Married to Bernard Defaix, a winemaker in Chablis, she applies the principles characteristic of great wines, with carefully tended soils and hand-harvested grapes. The wines are vinified at the Chablis winery, which is fully equipped; the white wines are aged in barrels.