2011 Joseph Dorbon Chardonnay Arbois Vieilles Vignes

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 92 points

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  10/4/2019 - bklynwine wrote:

  Yes, it's recognizable as chardonnay, and yes, you can taste a connection to Burgundy, but because this is Jura there's always a curveball, and here it almost tastes like a bit of red-fruit spritz, like the faint red fruit of a blanc de noirs champagne; hard to put your finger on it, but isn't that why we drink Jura wines?; not overly oxidative or nutty, tastes clean and fresh

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  9/20/2016 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 92 Points

  New Jura producer in the Neal Rosenthal portfolio, and on the basis of this bottle at least, a worthy successor to Puffeney. Aged sous voile for 24 months, it doesn't have a sherried profile but neither is it one of those Jura wines that you could mistake for a white Burgundy. The fruit tones are deeper and brassier but stop short of nutty territory, and it's kept fresh with quartz and talc-like sensations. This is one of those wines that actually gets fresher and more bracing as it warms up, as those mineral elements come to the foreground.

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