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Arbois Savagnin, Stéphane Tissot 2023

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This is a 'topped-up' version of savagnin to stop the nutty, yeasty notes, a once unique winemaking process that is fast becoming the main style adopted in the region. Stéphane was one of the pioneers of this modern style, wanting to express more of the grape variety rather than the ageing. A pithy white that has an attractive oily texture and concentration. Expect salted almonds and fleshy peach notes with citrus salinity on the finish that balance the wine's generous core. Drink this year to 2034. 15%
Price: £53.00 Bottle (£70.67/litre)
Price: £159.00 Case of 3 (£70.67/litre)
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Code: JU2461

Wine characteristics

  • White Wine
  • 1 - Bone dry
  • Savagnin
  • 75cl
  • Now to 2034
  • 15% Alcohol
  • bouquet/flavour marked by oak
  • Cork, natural
  • 625 g (Empty bottle weight)
  • Biodynamic certified

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Stéphane Tissot

One of the best winemakers of the Jura, Stéphane Tissot is innovative and inquiring, constantly trying out new methods and ideas. He returned to his family domain in Arbois in the early nineties and set about changing the way things were done, converting the estate, all 32 hectares of it, to biodynamic viticulture, increasing the density of plantings so that the vines compete harder against each other, dramatically reducing yields, and experimenting with clay amphorae for fermenting his reds. He uses little sulphur dioxide and when fermenting all his wines uses only natural yeasts, vinifying terroir by terroir, plot by plot, and making a wide range of wine styles, from chardonnay, pinot noir, poulsard and trousseau of great purity, to sparkling and sweet vins de paille, all very expressive of where they are from. He also carries on the family tradition of making the nutty, oxidative wines of Jura from the savagnin grape. These wines, unfortified and matured in barrels that are not topped up as the wine slowly evaporates, see a film of yeast (known as flor and also found in fino sherry) develop protectively on the surface, a style well worth exploring.

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