Wine: Jura, $30 - 45
Results
Jacques Puffeney Arbois Rouge
This wine is sourced from several small parcels of Pinot Noir. It has little to do with its Burgundian brethren although the Jura is a mere ninety-minute drive from the Cote d’Or. This is a rustic wine, less demonstrative than the Trousseau, but with hints of truffle, mushroom and earth and that always present note of the fresh mountain air blowing down from the Alpine hillsides.
Winemaking Details: Wild Yeast Fermentation, Unfiltered, Unfined, Low SO2 Added
Michel Gahier Savagnin
This is the summer savignin. The wine was started with the intentions of being a Vin Jaune, one of the great aging wines of France. Made by letting a layer of yeast form on the wine in the barrel, (flor in Sherry) sous voile in this region. If the Voile collaspes he makes these wines, lighter,ready to drink now, kind of nutty, fruity sherry like taste,unique.
Jacques Puffeney Trousseau "Les Berangeres"
From a much-lauded vintage in this part of France, this is Puffeney's greatest red wine--from old vines in one of the most highly regarded vineyards in the district. Deeper, riper, and more complex than the Poulsard, with more structure and concentration, but with that same effortlessness and comforting minerality. A don't-miss wine, and one to cellar if you're so inclined (though its forwardness makes it hard to resist now...). Winemaking Details: Wild Yeast Fermentation, Unfiltered, Unfined, Low SO2 Added