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PROFILE
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PHILIPPE JAMESSE
Chef/Sommelier
Top level sommelier in France.
He made his sommelier debut at Champagne in 1993. He then went on to have a 28-year career as head sommelier, including 18 years at Domaine Les Clayères.
In 2019, he established “DNA CHAMPAGNE & WINE” and provides champagne consulting.
He has a deep knowledge of glasses and has designed a variety of glasses that bring out the flavors of wine and champagne. He sympathizes with the terroir and beliefs of sake and awa sake (sparkling sake), and has been serving as a sake judge for Kura Master since 2019. From 2021, he will be appointed as the Awa Sake Ambassador and will work to spread Japanese sake to the world.
GINTEN HAKURYU 2021
GINTEN HAKURYU 2021
Translucent, the tint is slightly silvery and the tears around the glass are runny. Seen from above, the foam bead holds up well with moderate dynamism.
We are instantly transported to the heart of matter and its fascinating expressive complexity that characterizes middle age. We discover the sea mist of seaweed and sodium then some resonances of smoked dashi.
The fine dried floral and vegetal extraction from green tea reveals great definition. The sweetness of yellow citrus is matched by majestic white pome fruits.
Concentration awakens, accompanied by heady milky notes and steamed rice, which combine with some cereals and root vegetables, in tension with some white spices, thus completing the sensation of delicacy.
The whole is adorned with an illustrious wet film recalling the original source, it is articulated in a remarkable olfactory structure.
Typically balanced on the palate, the effervescence is delicate, wrapped inside a silky fabric. Gracefully, white flowers and the flesh of white pip fruits loosen up on a precise lively acidity in harmony with iodized and herbaceous imprints.
Further on, a soft envelope appears which integrates fruity pastry and sourdough fragments in a perfect balance.
In sapid measure, are also invited some light wet touches of earth and white truffle which establish an eminent personality.
Purely organic, the finish floods this candid idyll with a few medicinal herbs, aromas that include a more earthy facet while a supreme iodized wave summons oysters and seashell salt in the finish.
Culinary pairings
- Dried shellfish with Champagne
- lemongrass and garden herbs, Dashi, oysters and root vegetables.
- Sea bream carpaccio
- white truffle oil, green citrus zest, ginger, coriander, shiso, sea lettuce. White beet tartare, dill and white pepper.
GINTEN Blanc 2021
GINTEN Blanc 2021
The splendid Venetian yellow that captures our regard. The thick liquid slowly flows down the glass.
We mainly see old peanuts such as walnuts, among which are mixed raisins and dried flowers. This antique cornucopia rests on a fantastic soft bed haloed with enchanting effects of plant liqueurs, dry caramel and pure flower honey with a nectar still perceptible, as if freshly gathered.
These components thus seem to form a real regenerating sap that gives us the memory of an old tea.
Grilled sourdough bread matured peanut fat, walnut oil, white truffles, freshly picked autumn mushrooms pan-fried in semi-salted butter give way to a completely different universe, oriental and maritime, where we discover a number of spices, such as the mixture of yellow raz el-hanout, green and yellow curry sprayed with sea mist.
Luxurious, the palate fully unfolds this authentic nature. Subtle rancio, evocations of old wines such as Vin Jaune from the Jura and great Hispanic sherries wander inside a wild, humid sensation.
The oxidative perceptions linked to patience and the power of time are enriched with cereals, peat and then roasting.
Purely organic, the finish draws an acidity endowed with alkaline and ferric sodium citrate. This candid idyll corroborates with some medicinal herbs, aromas that include a more earthy facet while a supreme maritime wave unfolds its concentrated flavors culinary.
Culinary pairings
- Roasted lobster with curry
- turmeric and honey. Tabouleh mint, coriander and dry raisin.
- Poularde de Bresse
- Truffled under the skin, poached, cream with morels. Steam rice.
GINTEN HAKURYU 2016
GINTEN HAKURYU 2016
Limpid, the coloring evokes straw yellow, the slippery tears on the glass are consistent. Seen from above, the sparkle unfolds with aerial wisdom.
The first milky, creamy scents trace a country setting evocative of a mature age. This fertile meadow surprises with a condensed fruit aspect, evidenced by the flesh and dried skin of the yellow fruit and the happy bitterness of its stone.
Abundantly present, the water and the richness of the rice pudding reveal their potential by completing this captivating picture with translucency.
The august aging toasts the whole with personality, a rich humus of noticeably withered leaves, straw and cereal flowers on the breathing surface.
This agricultural trip, in the middle of the harvest season, grants the luxury of an oriental universe of blond spices and candied lemon with a guaranteed fragrant extension.
Enveloped in roasted peanuts and milky fat, the feeling of mouth surprises with its animated heart of amino acids, served in support of small and progressive bubble formations with millimeter precision. We understand here, with exemplarity, the captivating contributions of maturation on an outstanding material.
The rural environment, cereals, smoked hay then grisette notes of sea stone combine skilfully with some farm cheese flavors.
Relying on moist wood essences, porcini mushrooms, shitake are presented like great culinary breaths.
The fruity heart remains colorful, then sliced with a lively impression of the mineralizing extract. This marriage of materials and time is embellished with brioche ferments that carry the finish towards an inspiring gastronomic breath.
Culinary pairings
- Turbot braised in butter
- blanquette of spring vegetables, pan-fried and hay-smoked shiitake. Steamed rice, roasted hazelnut.
- Creamy risotto, wild mushrooms, aged parmesan.
GINTEN SUIRYU
GINTEN SUIRYU
Transparent, graceful gold shimmers, tears slide along the walls of the glass with patience and medium thickness. Seen from above, the bead of foam is very strong, with an active warmth.
We are immediately captivated by sumptuous ripe white pome fruit, enriched with a nutty, cereal and toasted strain, this is a middle-aged profile.
Against the backdrop of an ethereal smoky, dried meat and white fish, the bright, rocky and salty epicenter demonstrates great scope. Warm ashes and sweet iodine unite lightly in the company of green and yellow citrus on tenderly candied zest.
Then we contemplate a progressive tone towards a fruity yellow stone and unctuous milky items, like the first fruits of fresh butter decorated with seaweed and plants.
The water used demonstrates a deep resistance and a strong constitution. The rice leaves us with some beguiling sweetness, thus creating an intelligible balance. Finally, some leafy and stem vegetables embrace aromatic herbs and relax in a cloud of sea spray.
With high energy mineralization, the mouth, rigorous and ample at the same time presents a large dimension endowed with a fruity in light sweetness. The lively effervescence fits perfectly inside a rich texture.
Around this periphery, the luminous axis delivers a vivid pigmentation of high precision. The judicious fat of fresh walnuts and fern sap is enhanced by an ineffable tangy fermentation virtue.
The finish with adequate bitterness recalls the beautiful osmosis of olfactory and gustatory elements, it is graying with cold stone, trace elements and fatty clay.
Finally, in a fresh sapid and saline torrent, it offers us dried bonito, half-cooked white fish, iodine, seaweed and other marine shellfish.
Culinary pairings
- Oysters
- their water in cucumber jelly, leeks, sea lettuce and yuzu, country bread and seaweed butter.
- Cod fillet steamed with herbs and seaweed
- French peas with smoked bacon, wilted spinach with wild garlic.
GINTEN KOURYU 2021
GINTEN KOURYU 2021
Admirable clarity with iridescent reflections. The noticeably greasy fluid glides slowly along the glass.
The essences establish the candied peacefulness of various citrus fruits connected to the whiteness of rich water.
The fragrances that link rice and yeasts are fragrant with a milky dimension that expertly tends towards refined sea salt, iodine, wet stony earth and then ginger condit. Black radish, horseradish and Thai basil also invite themselves into a soft herbaceous dew.
The opening makes amply spread plants with sap, chloroformed perfumes of leaves, decorated with white flowers in clusters of dry petals. It is a real spring atmosphere that fully allows the plant to blossom, and the soil becomes moistened with rainwater.
The whole is also distinguished by its old root remnants of dark chervil, cardoon and rutabaga. White pome fruits and a few tropical accents complete the act, they are freshly poached and flavored with sweet and discreet dessert spices, they remain intact, simply nourished in their flesh with a penetrating water.
Discreetly fleshed out, the mouth conceals a thermogenic tension, which outlines a sea rock with exceptional capillarity. The blade is sharp and honed, chiseling with crisp texture and flavor.
The juxtaposition of flowers, green citrus fruits, white tropical fruits and nascent plants felt previously marks a blooming wisdom of absorbing flavors and consistency.
A few satiny bitters in companionship with an alluvial calcium saline, repository of surviving life, threads its way like a thorn inside a vast efflorescent affluence.
In closing, an expanse of terrestrial depth emerges and propels us towards the fusional axiom. This sake inspires perfect mastery and the preservation of original freshness. The precision delivered wittily invokes the cutlery of great Asian chefs skillfully preparing exquisite fish sashimi.
Culinary pairings