Wine: Jura, Biodynamic
Results
Jacques Puffeney Poulsard M
Puff Daddy! Jacques Puffeney is known as the Pope of Jura. He makes textbook Jura wines with traditional grape varieties. Poulsard is a little known indigenous grape variety in the Jura region. Bright red mountain fruit, slate and earthiness, amazing wine from "la pape" Winemaking Details: Wild Yeast Fermentation, Unfiltered, Unfined, Low SO2 Added
Philippe Bonard Trousseau Le Ginglet
Word has it that Philippe Bonard has quite the hip following in Tokyo, and New York’s not far off in the fanfare. Bonard is one of many exciting natural wine producers based in the Jura. This red wine is made from the local Trousseau grape. It is light yet complex with raspberry fruit, hints of wild strawberry and slate on the palate - like a cross between a Gamay and a Pinot Noir.
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
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