Jura
Château Chalon - 2017 - Stéphane Tissot
Domaine André et Mireille Tissot
A clean, precise dry wine, concentrated nose with notes of spices and curry. The palate is rich, complex, with flavours of walnuts, cinnamon and gingerbread. A never-ending finish, on fine and noble bitters, almost citrusy. Extraordinary finesse!
- Size
- 62 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Designation
- Château-Chalon AOP
- Degree of alcohol
- 16 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2050
- rock’n’roll
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A 100% Savagnin wine matured sous voile (or under a ‘veil’ of flor), grown on clayey terroir from the Lias period, facing west. The vines are located beneath the village of Menétru-Le-Vignoble. Harvesting is done late in the season, in the second half of October. The wine aged in a Burgundy barrel where it remains 6 years and 3 months, without ever topping off the barrel. Over time 1/3 of the total volume evaporates, while a layer of flor forms on the surface of the wine in the barrel, which nourishes and protects the wine during this period.

Stéphane Tissot
Stéphane Tissot took over the beautiful family estate from André and Mireille Tissot in 1990, and in over thirty years has accomplished a colossal task to reach the summit of the Jura and become a model far beyond the borders of France. After converting the entire vineyard to organic farming in 1999, the estate was certified biodynamic in 2004. This has been a relentless, honourable,...
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