ARBOIS PINOT NOIR BIO 2023

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Pinot Noir is often blended with other varieties, for its flavour and cellaring potential. It can also be enjoyed as a single-varietal wine. Planted since the 15th century in the Jura, on gravelly soils, it is often the first vine variety to ripen in the area. It gives red wines with a strong colour and hints of wild mushrooms, cherries and wild berries.

The vines of this Arbois Pinot Noir are cultivated under organic management since 1997. They are around thirty years’ old and now fully mature. Planted in chalky/clayey ground (Pinot Noir's favourite soil), they are now yielding their best crops and contain the Jura terroir's authentic character.

Tasting notes

The wine’s purple colour is rivalled only by its aromas. It has a deep colour and intense aromas. The nose gives off small black berries (blackcurrant and blackberry). It has an attractive length on the palate, with a slight astringency that bodes well for the future.

Food and wine paring

To be enjoyed with quail and red berries, sautéed duck breast, oeufs en meurette (poached eggs in red wine sauce) or just with a delicious cut of roast beef.

Serving suggestions

The ideal temperature is around 14°C. (57°F.)

Ageing potential

6 to 8 years.

Appellation

The Jura wine region is small in size but large in its remarkable diversity. It covers 80 kilometers between Burgundy and Switzerland, in the eastern France.

The Arbois AOC is the oldest and largest of the Jura's four geographic AOCs. In particular, it was France's first AOC (created in 1937). Its name originates in the Celtic words "ar" and "bois" that would mean "fertile land".

Winemaking

The harvest is received by hand and sorted on a sorting table. Fermentation lasts approximately 15 days in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats, with pre-fermentation cold maceration and end of vatting at 30°C to ensure maximum extraction and a full-bodied wine. Regular punching down and pumping over throughout fermentation. Aged in oak barrels for 9 months (20% of new oak).

Vintage : 2023

Starting on August 28, 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 grapes were the white this year: 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.

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