Domaine Pignier Cotes du Jura Trousseau 2016

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Vintage
2016

Size
750ML

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

Jurassic grape par excellence, the TROUSSEAU, comes from the place called "Les Gauthières" on a floor of trias mixed with variegated marls of Keuper. Manual grapes sorted and destemmed, vatting a month, natural fermentation with native yeasts, aging for 12 months in oak barrels allow the development of a wine expressing fine and delicate aromas of red fruits and spicy notes.

To be consumed with beef, waterfowl and cheese.

Professional Ratings

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    This wine’s sour-cherry flavors are clean, accented by scents of lavender and elderflowers, brightening to ripe raspberry in the end. It’s soft, round and simple, almost New World in style, reminding at least one panelist of a savory Oregon pinot noir.
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Indigenous to the Jura region of France, Trousseau is an intensely hued red wine grape that can make powerful wines with aging potential. Parentage analysis shows that it is related to Chenin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc and Savagnin. Though no one is certain how or why, Trousseau made a long journey west across France and the Iberian Peninsula well over 200 years ago to take a second home under the alias, Bastardo, in Portugal. It is also permitted in the production of Port. Somm Secret—Trousseau also goes by the names, Maturana Tinta, Merenzao and Verdejo Negro.

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On the foothills of the Jura Mountains, just east of the Cote de Beaune on the Switzerland border, the Jura wine-producing zone is recognized for its unique reds, as well as its particular and diverse styles of whites.

Though borrowed from their neighbor Burgundy, Chardonnay and Pinot noir have been growing in Jura since the Middle Ages. But here the altitude, topography, climate and clay-rich, marl soils support a different style of Pinot noir, not to mention its other deeply-colored, full-bodied indigenous reds, Poulsard and Trousseau.

Considering area under vine, growers here favor Chardonnay for its consistency and reliability; it comprises almost half of Jura's vineyard acreage. However, Jura Chardonnay is anything but boring; its many offbeat styles are part of what make region’s wines so distinctive. It is used for Cremant (sparkling), Macvin (a fortified wine), as well as fine examples at the quality level of Burgundy.

Jura also has a unique oxidative style for Chardonnay but is better recognized for its similarly-styled “vin jaune,” meaning ‘yellow wine,’ which is made from the indigenous variety, Savagnin. Vin jaune is made using techniques similar to those used to make Sherry.

For all of its wines, Jura favors a traditional, natural and often organic style in viticulture and winemaking.

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