A tasting of exceptional Jura wines at Vila Viniteca. Fun, informative, sometimes introspective, given the amount of sensations these wines would reveal. A very special tasting indeed.
This is what we tasted.
Domaine Berthet-Bondet Crémant du Jura Brut Nature. 70% Chardonnay and 30% Savagnin, with a noticeable body and both saline and poundcake flavours.
Bénédicte et Stéphane Tissot Arbois Chardonnay La Mailloche 2021. Blossom and ripe stone fruits, with a quite balanced acidity and a long, smoky finish.
Bénédicte et Stéphane Tissot Arbois Savagnin Sous Voile 2020. Golden happiness with marked walnut, almond and hazelnut aromas, and a refreshing salinity. Spends time under flor (sous voile) but undergoes an oxidative period as well, pretty much like a Spanish Amontillado.
Domaine Bornard Au Fil Des Générations 2019. A redish-orangy, non-filtered natural wine made with the local Poulsard grape. You’ll find redcurrant, blood-orange, and ripe peach.
Domaine Rolet Arbois Pinot Noir 1988. The most intriguing wine in the tasting, and one I particularly found extraordinary. A beautiful garnet color, with lots of tertiary aromas and flavours of toffee-like caramel, iron, meat, meat stock, and mushrooms. Not for everyone, but if you like it you love it.
Domaine Bornard Trousseau Le Garde Corps 2019. A single-variety Trousseau with extreme high acidity, pleasant green tannins, garrigue, and wet forest floor.
Domaine Rolet Arbois Vin Jaune 1986, and Domaine Berthet-Bondet Château-Chalon 1986. Where do we begin with these two? Silky, nutty, elegant vins jaunes, which took their time to express themselves -in particular the Berthet-Bondet one-, and offered almost forty years of evolved, complex aromas and flavours which probably need hours of patient tasting to be discovered in their entirety.
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