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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 3 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | Tasted by Cabernetdialectic on 9/19/2020 & rated 90 points: This is an early budding and early ripening Jura specialty that yields red wines more akin to rose (Alice Feiring says they have a “fruit tea-like look”), with a whispery, translucent vibe, although the best ones have a depth that belies their appearance. I have some trepidation around where this might be in its drinking window.. alas, my anxiety is unfounded. This is delicately floral (rose water, baby’s breath, white clover), with a shocking depth of (fruit) tea-like vinous character that saturates my wine-loving soul like a retrovirus invades DNA (alright, that’s a tad gross... but truly). And look at that colour! Organic farming, with grapes foot-stomped (!) and open-fermented before aging takes place in stainless steel. Rose hips, hawthorn, mountain wild strawberries, white pepper, Szechwan peppercorns, red plum, a whiff of axle grease and rain barrel. Poulsard’s distinctive perfume builds in the glass over time but never reaches cloying proportions. And the structure? The acidity is perky but far from aggressive, and what tannin resides here is wispy, ethereal, a ghost with slightly scratchy hands. I think briefly of the old stony earth under all those flowers and shrubs, even as my mind loops back to sticky strawberry and raspberry Jolly Ranchers and fruit leather laced with iron. This is the sort of bottle that reaffirms why I love subtlety in wines... not to be mistaken for a lack of aroma or flavour. A paradox of spectral depth. (355 views) | | Tasted by LW31 on 2/22/2018: Almost transparent light red color. Succulent and tart red berries. touch of funk. Clean, pure poulsard. Imagine with a year or so it might develop a touch more but don't see this one as a long distancer. (596 views) | | Tasted by jonanator on 12/14/2016 & rated 90 points: Just great Poulsard. Still looking like rose (749 views) |
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2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest" 2019 vintage reports 2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage." 2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comJuraA petite and relatively obscure wine region in eastern France, between Burgundy and the Swiss border. Its geographical isolation has helped it to remain a rare bastion of traditional winemaking techniques, and today it produces some of the most distinctive wines in the world. Reds from the Jura are often light-bodied, earthy, berried, and reminiscent of the village wines of Burgundy (though here they are made of local grapes like Poulsard and Trousseau). While Chardonnay features widely, the true specialty of the region is the Vin Jaune (“yellow wine”) made from the white Savagnin grape. Cloudy, difficult Vin Jaune is made only in the best vintages, and must be aged for at least six years before being released. As it ages under a layer of yeast, known locally as “voile,” the wine slowly oxidizes, leading to complex aromas and flavors that range from walnut skin to sultana to spices and truffles. Famously long lived it is always sold in dumpy 62 cl bottle - the wine lost in production having been taken by les anges.
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