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訃報 アンリ・ジェイエ死去 - 2006年09月24日(日)
ワインの神様、アンリ・ジェイエが亡くなった！
5週間ほど前から仏ディジョンの病院に入院していたジェイエ氏ですが２０日、前立腺がんのため病院で死去、８４歳でした。
以前よりガンで闘病中であることは知っていましたが、とうとうこの日がやってきてしまったのですね！
本当に悲しいです。
氏のドメーヌは奥様とお二人の娘さんが引き継ぐらしい。
私の持っているアンリ・ジャイエのコレクションでワイン会を年内に開く予定でしたが、どうやら偲ぶ会になりそうです。
こういう訃報を聞くと、お会いしておくべきだったと残念に思います。
もちろん、私が願っても簡単にお会いできない方なのですが。
実は私、マダム・ルロワとのお食事に誘われています。
11月の予定なんだけど。
場所は海外なので、ちょっと返事は保留中です。
でもマダム・ルロワもご高齢だし、やはりお会いしておいた方が良いかしら？
できれば日本でお会いできれば良いのだけど、そんな贅沢はいってられませんね。
だいたいがマダム・ルロワと同席してお食事できるセッティングをされている方にお誘いを受けることの方がそもそもラッキーなのです。
当日はマダムのワインもいろいろ飲める予定だし。
これはやはり飛行機に乗って駆けつけるべきかしら？
あ〜英語やフランス語をもっと勉強しておけば良かったのに。
せっかくお会いできるのに私の語学力じゃ、いろいろお話できなさそう。
●アンリ・ジャイエ●
ブルゴーニュのワイン農家出身。自然農法で栽培したブドウの果粒のみを新たるで長期熟成、濾過（ろか）せず直接瓶詰めする製法を７０年代に確立した。ボーヌロマネ村を中心に、同村の伝説的ワイン、ロマネコンティにも対抗できる高級赤ワインを産出。「ブルゴーニュの神様」として世界のワイン愛好者に知られた。引退後は後進への助言を続けていた。
The New York Timesの追悼記事なり。
Henri Jayer, an untrained French vineyard worker who rose to become one of the most important winemakers in Burgundy in the 1970’s and 1980’s, died Wednesday in Dijon, France. He was 84.
The cause was cancer, according to Martine Saunier, his representative in the United States. He had been ill for several years and was hospitalized five weeks ago, Ms. Saunier said.
At the height of Mr. Jayer’s fame in the late 1980’s, not even the wines of the legendary Domaine de la Romanee Conti were as prized as the frustratingly small quantities of wines he produced. To own even two or three of his Echezeaux or Richebourg, or his Vosne-Romanee Clos Parentoux, was to possess a vinous treasure. Owning a full case of 12 bottles could provoke the wrath of threestar restaurateurs all over France whose cellars were filled with fine Burgundy but who had no Jayer.
Henri Jayer was born in ? and rarely left ? the famous wine village of Vosne-Romanee, about halfway between the city of Dijon and Beaune, the historic capital of the Burgundy wine district. A modest, unassuming and eminently approachable man, he was the quintessential Burgundian vigneron, or winemaker. What he knew he learned from observation and experimentation, among his vines and in the wine cellar.
In 1945, Mr. Jayer entered into a 10-year contract with the Noirot-Camuzet family, which owned parts of several famous vineyards in Vosne-Romanee. He tended their vines and made the wines in exchange for 50 percent of the grapes. His half was bottled under his name. The contract was extended until 1987, when a younger member of the Camuzet family took over.
Over the years, Mr. Jayer had been buying small portions of the Clos Parentoux vineyard in Vosne-Romanee from the Camuzet family and other owners. He blended Clos Parentoux wine with wines from other Vosne-Romanee vineyards until 1978. That year, for the first time, he bottled a wine entirely from Clos Parentoux; it was the wine that made his reputation, although he rarely made more than some 3,500 bottles ? just under 300 cases.
Although “retired” from his contract with the Camuzets, he continued to make Clos Parentoux until 1995, when he turned the business over to a nephew by marriage, Emmanuel Rouget.
Mr. Jayer’s father, Eugene, moved to Vosne-Romanee before World War I and pieced together a small domain of about seven acres. In later years Henri and his brothers, Lucien and Georges, added small parcels to the family land and leased others. There are many Jayers in their section of Burgundy, known as the Cote de Nuits, and most of them are involved in making wine. Some have their own labels, some work for others and some, like Mr. Jayer, do both.
Mr. Jayer is survived by his wife, Marcelle Rouget Jayer, and two daughters.
Emmanuel Rouget now tends Lucien and Georges’s vineyards as well as Henri’s. A former auto mechanic, he was brought into wine growing and trained by his uncle. Some years ago, an interviewer asked Mr. Rouget if he had changed anything he had learned from Henri. “We bring in the grapes in plastic containers now, instead of wooden baskets,” he said.
By FRANK J. PRIAL
Published: September 22, 2006
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