Jura
Kilt - Jean Baptiste Menigoz
Les Bottes Rouges
A nose with notes of almonds in the shell, dates, vanilla, and nutmeg... The palate is smooth and balanced, with lovely volume and a candied-fruit finish. A delightful wine to cap off a great meal – to be served chilled.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Vin de Liqueur
- Degree of alcohol
- 16.5 %
- To drink from
- 2023 to 2040
- rock’n’roll
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A sweet vin de liqueur wine, produced from grape marc (from all the varieties harvested at the estate in 2014) which was distilled into spirits and aged in old barrels for two years, which Jean-Baptiste then blended with unfermented Chardonnay juice from 2016 – a process for making fortified sweet wines known as mutage. The blend was then aged for four years in 228-litre barrels that have seen several wines. Neither fined nor filtered, and just a microdose of sulphur.

Jean-Baptiste Ménigoz
Jean-Baptiste Ménigoz of Domaine des Bottes Rouges didn’t begin his career as a vigneron but rather as a schoolteacher. However, whenever the bell rang, he’d spend all his free time working in vineyards. This continued for nearly ten years, until the day he was taken on for an apprenticeship at the historic Jura estate of Stéphane Tissot . From that point on, he was determined to spend his...
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