"This iconic vin jaune wine has plenty of length on the palate, with appealing notes of spice, nuts, mushrooms, and the typical salinity found with this wine. Very persistant on the finish.
Jancis Robinson 17.5/20
Savagnin. More nutty than the Savagnin 2011, less fruity. Smells of oats and hay and dried grasses. Fabulously rich in weight and texture, balanced by piercing acidity. Gorgeous complexity and still has ripe pear flavours even with all the tertiary intrigue
Aidan - April 2018
Served with the cheese at the end of a delicious meal, this was a fascinating wine, huge intensity on the nose and a palate that benefited enormously from air to enable it to bind together and fill all the edges of this still very youthful wine. Not a style with which I am overly familiar but great to have enjoyed it over a meal with friends."
Jean Berthet-Bondet has been working his land since 1984. With a humble 10 hectares of 30 year old vines, this estate may well be small but it is steeped in history and heritage. Half of Jean's land is in the Château Chalon appellation which is home to the Savagnin grape, renowned for making the revered Vin Jaune. Exclusive to the Jura, this wine is harvested late and then aged in barrel for over 6 years. In that time a "voile" or layer of yeast forms on top of the wine, which gives the wine its distinctive flavour of walnuts, hazelnuts and green almonds. A unique wine that has seen a resurgence of popularity in recent years, but has always been appreciated by the knowledgeable few. Mechanisation is difficult and so that means that the majority of the work has to be done by hand, and therefore requires a lot of people.
