Jura
Vin Jaune "La Mailloche" - 2016 - Stéphane Tissot
Domaine André et Mireille Tissot
Dry wine, clean and precise, powerful and very charming nose of walnut, baked apple, caramel, orange marmalade, coffee... Endless finish. Mailloche offers a seductive, almost tannic rusticity.
- Size
- 62 cl
- Original features
- Biodynamic wine
- Appellation
- Arbois
- Degree of alcohol
- 14.5 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2050
- rock’n’roll
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A vin jaune – the Jura’s legendary oxidative wine – made of 100% Savagnin, from a terroir of degraded and very compact clayey Lias marls, facing east. Located on a slope overlooking Arbois, the vines are certified organic by and biodynamic, and harvested late in October. The wine is put into a Burgundy barrel where it remains at least 6 years and 3 months, without any topping up of the barrel. Over time 1/3 of the total volume evaporates, while a layer of flor forms on the surface of the wine, which nourishes and protects it until it is bottled.
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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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