| Jura’s most
notable name, Domaine Tissot, are coming to town.
Get them now. The wines are available for delivery
in early January. |
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| Bénédicte & Stéphane TISSOT |
| Jura’s
foremost ambassadors & their iconic
single-vineyards |
 Bénédicte & Stéphane Tissot |
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How do you
describe Stéphane Tissot? Perhaps ‘human firework’
comes closest. He fizzes and crackles with energy,
bonhomie, positivity and creativity, and he and his
wife Bénédicte have, in the 25 years since he took
over from his father, turned this into one of the
finest French domains in any region. — Andrew Jefford, Decanter Full of personality and character, these are the sorts of wines that keep me excited about the job I do, not because they are the world’s greatest ever wines, but rather because they are authentic and different. — Jamie Goode, The Wine Anorak They produce the kind of wines that make a wine-writer think, “Oh, yes! This is why I love wine!” — Danielle Wong, thatslifegourmet.com |
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 The beautiful landscape of Jura (photo: La Revue du Vin de France) |
In the last few years, interest in Jura has exploded, as U.S. sommeliers discovered that the area’s limpid reds (made from local grapes like trousseau and pinot noir) and distinctive whites (chardonnay and savagnin) were in many cases as good as the wines of the Côte de Beaune, but at a fraction of the price. In no time, Jura’s most iconic wine — vin jaune, a pale yellow, nutty, saline dry wine — was appearing on lists everywhere from Eleven Madison Park to Denmark’s Noma.
Landscape, grape varieties and methods in the Jura’s appellations are unique, and so are the wines, which often lean toward delicacy and elegance. While chardonnay and pinot noir are widely cultivated in Jura and Arbois, the red trousseau and poulsard and the white savagnin are what give the region its distinctive qualities. Savagnin is allowed in all white wine production of the regions but it is the only grape permitted in the unique vin jaune (“yellow wine”) and Château Chalon.
One of the most progressive estates in Arbois is Domaine André et Mireille Tissot, founded in 1962. André and Mireille’s son Stéphane, after working at wineries in Australia and South Africa, took over the domaine in 1990 and operates it with his wife Bénédicte.
The domain might still carry the name of his parents, but it is Stéphane Tissot who took the vineyard work and the wines to its widespread fame today. He has accomplished so much. Today, the 46-ha estate produces more than 30 different wines, each a remarkable distillation of vineyard, grape and individual expression. Stéphane Tissot converted the estate to all organic practices in 1999, followed by biodynamic methods in 2004, certified by Demeter. Yields remain limited, however, with a yearly production of no more than 140,000 bottles in a bounteous vintage.
The estate is exemplary especially for the appellations of Arbois, Arbois Vin Jaune, Côtes du Jura, and Château-Chalon. It can also be said that the region owes much of its present status to Stéphane’s outgoing dynamism. He is possibly the most amiable and enthusiastic ambassadors the region has ever had, and the excellence of his domaine’s wines has certainly helped the cause. Contagiously passionate about his wines and about the great history of the Jura, Stéphane has expanded the domaine’s export to an impressive scope. Not even many a great Burgundy domaine can rival Domaine Tissot’s presence across the globe.
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Stephane Tissot
has become the best-known face of his region
internationally . . and in their combination of
clarity and immediate appeal with intrigue, it would
be hard to find either a person or wines more suited
to that role. — David Schildknecht What a career Stéphane Tissot has been doing since 1990! . . Whatever the type of wine, everything is managed with talent and sensitivity, the flavours are of perfect integrity . . The sampling presented this year demonstrates once again the great mastery of the winemaker . . — La Revue du Vin de France |
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The Tissot stable reflects the great diversity of the styles and grapes of the region. Stéphane undertook enormous efforts in the cellar to hone the fruit, substance, and complexity of his wines. He breathed life into the estate, providing the dynamism and focus necessary to produce a complete range of precise, delicate wines with great fruit character. He is a leading grower in the wine appellation of Arbois and Côte de Jura and is rare in offering single vineyard bottlings such as Les Bruyères.
“I’m in the north of the area. I make seven different Chardonnay. Every one is from a different soil — clay, marl, limestone — and each produces a different style of the wine.
“We have been biodynamic since 2004. When you’re biodynamic, you have a different life in your vines, in your grapes, and in this way, you can make very easy wine. It leads you. You can keep your yields low, and it increases the minerality. When you drink a glass, you want to drink another one, because they have very nice acidity.
“Most Jura producers make one Vin Jaune. I have enough Savagnin that I make four Vin Jaunes, each from different soils. When you speak about Vin Jaune, you speak about the winemaking, of the style, of the power, of the concentration, but sometimes we miss all the complexity of the wine on every soil. For me, four different Vin Jaunes is a step forward for winemaking.”
 Stéphane Tissot (photo: Getty Images) |
We are extremely grateful and happy to offer you this parcel, direct from domaine, due to be available for delivery in January 2019. Stéphane Tissot is a world class producer, respectful of tradition but always striving for improvement. He’s incredibly dialed-in and his wines have never been better. Jura fans and all fans of elegant, precise, food friendly wines should not sleep on these special bottles.
These prices are valid until 20 December 2018. Full payment is required no later than 7 days after confirmation invoice is sent in order to confirm the purchase. No reservation is allowed and no further discount. All terms and conditions apply.
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| Arbois Pinot Noir “Sous La Tour” 2016 | |
S$ 72 / 750 ml
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| Manual
harvest, whole, maceration 3 weeks in truncated
wooden vats. Aging in Burgundy pieces for 1 year
(15% new oak). Slight sulphiting after malolactic
fermentation, bottling without sulfur, without
filtration. |
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 “A Pinot Noir on
limestone in its third vintage, the 2016 Pinot Noir
Sous La Tour comes from a small plot by the Tour de
Curon. Fermented with full clusters and aged in
barrique (so he added some sulfur after malolactic),
this showed a more restrained nose compared with the
other Pinot Noir, which comes from clay soils. It
has fine tannins and some bitterness in the finish.”
WA 92 |
| Arbois Chardonnay “Les Graviers” 2016 | |
S$ 72 / 750 ml
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plots composed of limestone and stony scree. The
vines were planted between 1952 and 2002, on an area
of 1.3 hectares. The aging is done over 16 months in
oak barrels of which 30% are new. Pressing of the
grapes without de-stemming and fermentation with
indigenous yeasts in barrique, without filtrations.
Elevage for 12 months on the lees in barrique and 4
months in steel tanks. |
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 “The 2016
Arbois Chardonnay les Graviers will be bottled in
January 2018, so I tasted a provisional blend. This
is a bottling from one single vineyard with one
single soil, limestone over clay, so you have the
spiciness and the volume, the mineral austerity and
a very focused and clean character that seems to be
the style of the 2016 vintage. Even this unbottled
wine showed aromatic and floral, very elegant, open
and accessible. This is very nice, but I find less
Jura character here than in the Sursis.” WA
92-93“An astonishing biodynamic Chardonnay that takes hold of you from the very first moment your nose gets anywhere near the glass. Not many wines fit the description ‘gulpable’ but this really does. Candied lemon cut through with a twist of concentrated lime and cut slate. The wine contracts on the finish, thrillingly tense, and keeps you held there for a good five minutes. Can’t remember when I’ve enjoyed a Chardonnay outside of Burgundy more. A wine that makes you want to call your friends to share the good news.” (Previously rated 97 points, Decanter) |
| Côte du Jura Chardonnay “En Barberon” 2016 | |
S$ 72 / 750 ml
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 From limestone soil on
the surface with marl in the bottom. The 2.05-ha
vineyard was planted in 1974 and 1975 with a density
of 3,300 vines per hectare. The orientation
encompasses both east- and west-facing. The wine was
vinified and raised without sulphur. Only 2,270
bottles produced. The wine typically displays
complex spicy and smoked flavours, with butter and
citrus with clear minerality and great length,
hinting at excellent cellaring potentials. Delicious
now but will develop for 10-15 years. |
| “Les Bruyères” Vin Jaune 2011 | |
S$ 133 / 620 ml
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 Savagnin coming from a
locality called Bruyères, clay soil of the Lias
where the Tissot estate has a plot of 80 acres
planted 45 years ago. The grapes are harvested by
hand and destemmed before vinification in stainless
steel vats and the particular breeding of yellow
wines: 6 years in old barrels, with a veil of yeast
and without topping-up. The process evaporates about
a third of the volume.This is a big wine, sumptuous, full of dense dry extract, complex with spices, nuts and finishing with a remarkable length. |
| “La Mailloche” Vin Jaune 2011 | |
S$ 145 / 620 ml
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 Savagnin coming vines
located on a hillside overlooking Arbois. This vin
jaune (yellow wine) is nicknamed the gold of the
Jura. The harvest is late – 2nd half of October – by
hand and destemmed before vinification and ageing
for 75 months with a veil of yeast and without
topping-up. The process evaporates about a third of
the volume.A fine and delicate wine, displaying a magnificent balance between terroir, vintage and vinification method. |
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| Château-Chalon Vin Jaune 2011 | |
S$ 152 / 620 ml
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| 30-year-old
vines on calcareous gravelly soil. The grapes are
destemmed, pressed and fermentation naturally
in steel tanks before aging it for 78 months in old
barriques, of which 72 were done “sous voile” under
the flor without topping-up. |
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| “For Tissot, the difference between
the two appellations is that that Château-Chalon has
'more finesse, more delicate fruit and more citrus
character'. That’s certainly true of this
magnificent example, still a relatively pale gold in
early 2018. There’s huge aromatic complexity here,
if you just give it a little time to emerge. Notes
of moss, woodruff, mint and lemon verbena cushion
understated but supportive light citrus fruits –
though not, as yet, much nut or mushroom complexity.
On the palate the wine almost has the acidic energy
and lunge of a Riesling, though the allusions
seeping from that acidic force are quite different:
crushed stone, green plum skins and green apple with
a chicory, acorn or dandelion-sap bitterness. It’s
resonant, energetic and almost caustic in the mouth,
yet there is a little umami warmth too and, given
time, you will see a glowing shapeliness emerge. A
magnificent Vin Jaune.” (Previously rated 97
points, Decanter) “Château-Chalon opens with an aromatic expression of walnuts, mushrooms, with a background reminiscent of curry spices and lemon. Precise, powerful, complex, with intense flavors of nuts and walnuts balanced by citrus, with a soft peaty background.” 94 points, siyps.com |
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