CÔTES DU JURA - TRADITION 2023

This cuvee TRADITION offers a perfect balance between the elegance and the finesse of the Pinot Noir, and the spicy, crispy notes with a little wilderness of the local grapes.

In the glass the wine offers an intense dark cherry-red colour. The nose gives off small red berries aromas, with pleasant spicy hints. In the mouth, the wine is lively, with hints of spice and ripe fruit. It has an elegant structure and a long, elegant finish.

Discover with grilled or roasted meats, a salad with poultry liver, quails with raisins, or in accompaniment of a beautiful plate of French cheeses.

Serve at a temperature of average 14 to 15°C (57-59°F).

5 to 8 years.

The Jura wine region is small in size but large in its remarkable diversity. It covers 80 kilometres between Burgundy and Switzerland, in the eastern France. Created in 1937, the AOC (designation of origin) of Cotes du Jura is omnipresent in the north and south of the vineyard, on varied and contrasting terroirs. It is the second leading AOC in Jura in terms of production, and it engages all five of the Jura's grape varieties. The whole range of wines of the Jura is represented, although the whites dominate - still or sparkling - with wines that are round, fruity, and generous.

In order to develop a harmonious cuvée, our Côtes du Jura comes from a selection of our best plots. The soils are very varied: Bajocian limestones, calcareous scree and marls on the plots attached to the hillside, to various clays. Lias and Trias on lands further forward, of variable depth but always sitting on marls which may be exposed.

The work in the vines, is based on the respect of the nature and the soil. For young vines, located on steep slopes, to avoid erosion, we cultivate a row out of two, practice soil reassembly to aerate the lands subjected to settlement due to moisture, and grass with plants.
Such as clover, which, by competing on the vine, can modulate its mineral and water supply and control its vigor and yield.

The restructuring of the vines contributes to the harmony of our cuvée: the young vines bring the exuberance, the freshness and the acidity. While the older specimens bring the structure and character.

After the manual harvest, the grapes are receipted at the winery and put into thermoregulated stainless steel tank for a total maceration of 12 days. Followed regularly throughout the fermentation, incorporating some pumping and pigeage.

At the moment of pressing, the press and drop juices of each cuvee are assembled and withdrawn for malolactic fermentation on fine lees.

The wines are then aged in stainless tank for 8 months and blended together (70 % Pinot Noir, 20 % Trousseau and 10% Poulsard) before light filtration and bottling.

Starting on August 28, in our large vineyard, the 2023 harvest was well anticipated, particularly for the Crémants du Jura with around 10 days of cutting which allowed to maintain good acidity and finally to obtain a magnificent harvest.

Our most qualitative plots this year were on white grape varieties: Chardonnay and Savagnin.

The reds remain on the tightrope and the choice of the harvest date was once again decisive, but here too, everything was well anticipated to offer a beautiful vintage for the reds as well!

No frost in 2023 and we would be very happy to keep this level of harvest every year as 2023 brings the volume well above a ten-year average with something reminiscent of the 2018 vintage, the benchmark vintage in the Jura regarding volumes.