Linden – I tasted the 2024s from barrel with Jérèmy last week. 2024 was an exhaustively challenging year where nature threw every problem it could at the vigneron. What struck me here was the intense focus on quality of fruit, and precision in every step of the work. It shows in the wines. His 2024s will stand out for their purity and intensity. At the end of the tasting he opened a bottle of 2023 Euphoria. This is a really fresh wine, with lovely tension between fragrant red fruit, whole bunch florals and beetrooty coolness. The palate shows great tension, purity and clarity, good fruit and a really pleasant finish. It will be interesting to see it with a year or two more time in the cellar, but – with a bit of aeration – you could enjoy your first bottle on delivery to get a sense for what he is doing. Don’t miss Jérèmy Carteret.

Jérèmy Carteret’s domaine is located in the village of Monthélie, and is a recent but promising venture. Jeremy worked as the right-hand man of the renowned winemaker Benjamin Leroux, and he embarked on producing natural wines when Leroux entrusted him with an old Pinot Noir parcel. With this opportunity, Jeremy implemented a meticulous and artisanal approach, utilising 100% whole cluster for his red wines.

For winemaking, Jeremy uses amphoras for aging his wines in the cellar, a traditional method that allows the wine to benefit from natural micro-oxygenation. This results in a wine with a delicate structure, preserving both the fruity aromas and finesse on the palate. His first vintage was in 2020, with only 650 bottles produced but already appealing to natural wine lovers.

Flower Power is made with 60% Gamay and 40% Pinot Noir, with the Gamay sourced from Beaujolais and the Pinot Noir from Clos Vallotte in Chassey-le-Camp, Hautes-C.tes de Beaune. Euphoria is made with 100% Pinot Noir from the southeast-facing vineyards of Les Crucibees, Fussey, Hautes-C.tes de Beaune. Les Grandes Carelles comes from vines planted in 1937 in Les Grandes Carelles plots in Pommard.

A new talent to discover urgently!