Côte De Nuits Villages, Jane Eyre, 2024
Côte De Nuits Villages, Jane Eyre, 2024
- 75cl
- 13%
- Red Still
- Pinot Noir
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Optimal drinking window: 2027 - 2034
"From old vines in Corgoloin and Comblanchien. Traditionally sees more whole bunch. Succulent dark fruit without excess ripeness, balanced and reassuringly complete. A wine Jane has “always made well”, and it shows."
Stewart Pryce, Honest Grapes Wine Club Manager
Transparency, Precision, and a Vintage That Fits Like a Glove
2024 could hardly suit Jane Eyre better. A cool, rain-affected year with low natural alcohols and sharply reduced volumes, it demanded obsessive sorting and restraint in the cellar. Jane delivered both. Sorting varied dramatically by site, with some parcels requiring extraordinary attention, but the results are wines of clarity, finesse, and unmistakable origin.
Whole-bunch use was carefully judged and varied by cuvée. In a vintage where some light-touch producers struggled to find flavour, Jane’s wines retain purity, energy, and real Pinot character. Barrel ageing has played a quiet but crucial role, rounding edges and knitting everything together without obscuring the transparency she prizes. These are wines that reward attention, and in cooler years like this, you truly see where they are from.
Côte de Nuits Villages sits at the northern and southern fringes of the Côte de Nuits, sandwiched between some of Burgundy's most famous names — Gevrey, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Vosne-Romanée — yet rarely gets the attention it deserves. Jane Eyre's version is made from Pinot Noir grown on the region's characteristic limestone-clay soils, and it has exactly the kind of freshness and lift you want from a village-level Burgundy in a cool, precise vintage like 2024.
What the critics say:
"Just racked from barrel. 30% whole bunches as the Côte de Nuits grapes were a little riper. A lively crimson ruby in colour. More cherries than berry fruit, a little bit of pepper from the whole bunches, then the fruit returns in an extended finish. Drink from 2028-2031. Tasted Oct 2025. *4/5*"
The Côtes de Nuits Villages appellation covers villages at the northern tip (Fixin and Brochon) and southern end (Comblanchien, Corgoloin, Prissey) of the Côte de Nuits. Soils are predominantly limestone and clay, with the limestone becoming more dominant and harder as you move south toward the quarrying villages of Comblanchien and Corgoloin. The 2024 vintage brought a cool, wet spring followed by a warm summer with well-timed rain, producing wines with good natural acidity and freshness — ideal for lighter-bodied Pinot Noir at this appellation level.
Côtes de Nuits Villages is a regional AOC covering the outlying villages at the edges of the Côte de Nuits — essentially the bookends of one of the world's great red wine strips. It sits below village-level appellations like Gevrey-Chambolle and Nuits-Saint-Georges in the Burgundy hierarchy, and rules require red wines to be made from Pinot Noir. Yields are regulated but relatively generous compared to premier and grand cru sites. The wines typically offer the character and charm of the Côte de Nuits at a fraction of the price of their famous neighbours, which is precisely why the appellation deserves more love than it usually gets.
The 2024 growing season in Burgundy was, frankly, a test of nerve. A wet spring brought significant mildew pressure, and vignerons who stayed sharp in the vineyard — working fast, keeping canopies open, reducing yields where necessary — came out the other side with something worth talking about. Summer brought warmer, drier conditions that helped the fruit recover composure, and harvest arrived broadly on the later side, with growers picking carefully to find phenolic ripeness without sacrificing freshness. Quantity was down across much of the Côte, which concentrates minds as much as it concentrates wine.
What emerged is a vintage that rewards those who put the work in. The Pinots we have tasted carry real precision and translucency — not because they are light, but because the acidity is lively and the fruit unforced. Chardonnays from the Côte de Beaune look particularly promising: taut, mineral, with genuine length. This is not a vintage to panic-open. Most village and premier cru reds want three to five years at minimum, with the better appellations drinking well until 2035 and beyond. The whites are more approachable now, though the best will reward patience too.
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