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Côtes du Jura Chardonnay Empreinte Sous Voile Marnes Blanches (Domaine des) 2018

The wine

The Chardonnay Empreinte Sous Voile from Domaine des Marnes Blanches is matured for two and half years under a veil of yeast (sous voile in French).
This lovely Jura wine develops wonderful oxidative notes and brilliantly complex aromas of curry, nuts and spices. The undercurrent is taut and the acidity cuts through the rich body and stretches into the finish with the saline notes that make the wine especially mouthwatering. This fine sipping wine can be paired with a mature Comté or chicken cooked in a morel mushroom sauce. And while the wine can be enjoyed in its youth, it can also be left in the cellar for 20 years to become even more complex.

About the Producer Domaine des Marnes Blanches

Situated in Sainte-Agnès in the Jura, the Domaine des Marnes Blanches (a name inspired by the estate's white limestone soil) is owned by Pauline and Géraud Frémont, a couple of young oenologists. In 2008, they took over 10 hectares located in Sud-Revermont of Savignin and Chardonnay for the white wines and Trousseau, Pinot Noir and Poulsard for the reds. They have also acquired some very old vines. Their entire estate has organic certification and their methods include laying the rows in between the vines to grass and tilling the soil. In the chai, vinifications are carried out with as little intervention as possible as per the owners’ belief that ‘the wine should make itself’. The pressing of the grapes is gentle and vinifications are done plot by plot with sulphur only added ‘homeopathically’. This is an excellent domain whose wines express their terroir in all its complexity and diversity. To follow closely!

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