Jura
Broken hearts are for assholes - 2020 - Valentin Morel
Les Pieds sur Terre
A cuvée in homage to Frank Zappa, and his hyper-energetic song, just like this wine! Highly complex, with notes of peach, flowers and almonds, a hyper-aromatic "tinted white", off the beaten track, with very fine aromatic persistence.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 13.5 %
- To drink from
- 2023 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
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100% Chardonnay from 40-year-old organic vines planted on the clay-limestone terroir of Les Trouillots. Harvested by hand. Natural winemaking: direct pressing, fermentation and aging in 228-liter barrels for one year, without new oak. After the 2021 harvest, Valentin macerates his hybrid grape skins (after they had been pressed) in the wine for two weeks, followed by one more year year of aging in vats. Bottled at the estate in September 2022 with no filtration or fining, and no added sulfur.

Valentin Morel
Valentin Morel was a government officer in a French prefecture in 2014 when, in rather dramatic fashion, he left his post… and returned home to reconnect with his family’s farming roots. He took over the 6-hectare estate of his father Jean-Luc Morel, who spent more than 30 years passionately working these vines, planted around the village of Poligny in the heart of Jura. It was his readings,...
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