Forest Fruits, Spice, Leather

Jura / Red / Trousseau, Blend / Organic, Biodynamic 

 
* Please note that because there is limited stock of this wine it is not subject to any further discount. 

Hand harvested from 60 year old vines. Whole bunch press with fermentation on wild yeasts. Aged in used French oak for one year. Unfiltered and unfined. No added sulphur at bottling. Concentrated wild strawberry, sweet ripe cranberry and raspberry, with a bit of heat, fresh leather, blood and white pepper. The palate is gentle and shy to start with soft red forest fruits and red plum, but acidity grows and fruit profile builds into more exotic dry spice. Great stuff

Notes on the producer

Philippe Chatillon was estate manager at the much celebrated Arbois winey of Domaine de La Pinte for close to 18 years. It was then, in 2013, that he decided he wanted to create his own, finding and buying a hillside plot of Savagnin in Passenans with which to work. Soon he added plots with of Melon a Queue Rouge, Pinot Noir, Tousseau and Chardonnay and, exchanging his original Savagnin plot for another worked only biodynamically, he is on his way! He works his vineyard by hand, without the use of any chemical fertilizer what so-ever. The soils are aided by biodynamic preparations and in the cellar he uses old oak, spontaneous fermentations and bottles without fining or filtration. Furthermore he works in bio-harmony, using sounds vibrations from harps to aid in the wines balance.