2017 Domaine de la Tournelle Arbois Trousseau des Corvées

Community Tasting Notes (3) Median Score: 91 points

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  5/6/2021 - martinvolmerpedersen@gmail.com Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Wow. Drank the day after Pascal passed away, this was an emotional experience. This was on fire, bursting with energy, tension and a huge bunch of dried, dusty roses. Maintains freshness and juiciness, this is just wonderful

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  2/13/2021 - forceberry wrote: 82 Points

  A Trousseau from the lieu-dit Les Corvées. Fully destemmed, macerated with the skins for 10 to 30 days (depending on the vintage). Fermented spontaneously, aged in large oak foudres for 12 months, vinified and bottled without any sulfites. Lot number LTr0519. 12,5% alcohol.
  
  Quite translucent, slightly hazy and subtly developed cranberry red color. Wild, funky and somewhat volatile nose with aromas of bretty funk, some crunchy cranberry, a little bit of acetic sharpness, light peppery tones and a lifted hint of sweet nail polish. The wine is lively, medium-bodied and quite ripe on the palate with subtly sweet-toned flavors of wild strawberries, some blueberries, light volatile notes of sweet nail polish, a little bit of peppery spice, a hint of crunchy crowberry and a touch of acetic sharpness. The overall feel is surprisingly soft and mellow for a Jura with its medium-to-moderately high acidity and very gentle tannins that at first seem almost nonexistent, then slowly pile up on the gums. The finish is juicy, wild and gently grippy with mellow, medium-long flavors of wild strawberries, some raspberry juice, a little bit of acetic roughness in the throat, light volatile notes of nail polish, a hint of stony minerality and a touch of bretty barnyard funk.
  
  A rather wild and surprisingly soft and mellow Trousseau that came as a relatively disappointing wine to me. First, while I do enjoy natural wines, I prefer wines that can keep their funk at bay - whereas this wine was all over the place and most of the nuance was lost underneath the elevated levels of VA; secondly, the wine was surprisingly soft and mellow for a Trousseau - I consider the variety to be the most structured one of the red Jura cultivars, but this was a soft and easy like a simple Poulsard. I wonder if the poor 2017 vintage had something to do with that. Nevertheless, I poured the wine blind for a bunch of people and the first two comments were "this feels like something East of Burgundy" and "I wonder if this is a naturalist Trousseau or Bastardo". At that point I concluded that no more guessing was necessary - so I guess there's some typicity to this wine. However, at 26,90€, I wouldn't say this was worth the price.

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  2/15/2020 - amenges Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Jen opened and noted some effervescence. However I rated after about an hour noting none. Did begin with a very earthy/barnyard scent with mild strawberries however flipped and less earthy and more stewed strawberries as the bottle went on.

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