Nevertheless, just after Clos-Saint-Jacques, Les Cazetiers and Les Combottes are the best premiers crus of Gevrey. This translates into the flavors of the wines, with Cazetiers always feeling like blacker fruit, and Clos-Saint-Jacques like redder fruit. This is not the case with Les Cazetiers, where owners may have parcels anywhere on the slope, making the various examples heterogeneous.īruno Clair points out an interesting difference between Les Cazetiers and Clos Saint Jacques: In his cellar Les Cazetiers always has a higher pH (lower acidity). Their bickering about this and the comparative tastings in the cellar are always very entertaining.) However, the five owners of Clos Saint Jacques famously own sections of the vineyard that run the entire slope, making it one of the most consistent premier crus in the Côte d’Or. (His cellarmaster, Philippe Brun, prefers Clos Saint Jacques. In fact, Bruno Clair, who owns both, prefers Les Cazetiers. This is a rather high elevation, the top of the vineyard being 50 meters higher than the top of Clos de Bèze, and 25 meters higher than the top of Vosne-Romanée les Reignots, for example.īecause Les Cazetiers is the northern neighbor of Clos-Saint-Jacques, it ought to be more famous. Les Cazetiers is an 8.43 ha vineyard, located directly upslope from the village of Gevrey, at 300 to 355 meters' elevation. According to Françoise Dumas, the more plausible explanation is that Cazetiers was derived from cassis, which would indicate the presence of wild cassis or red currant bushes.” - Charlotte Fromont, La Côte de Nuits au Grand Jour Site Description:
“For a while, people mentioned a derivation of the word castel, in reference to the position of the climat above the castle of Gevrey-Chambertin.
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