2019 Commendatore

Trousseau for Trousseau diehards. All of those feather-light red fruits and brambles and soft herbs. Silky, sensuous, like a cats tail wrapped around your leg. The minerality of the Jura soil shines like the sun here. Though it's light, this wine still stands tall when matched with a semi-strong cheese and truffles – Do it! Fruit is from Alice’s vines in her Corvées vineyard which lies close to the village of Montigny les Arsures. The soil here is considered to be perfect for the sensitive gr...Read More...

Trousseau for Trousseau diehards. All of those feather-light red fruits and brambles and soft herbs. Silky, sensuous, like a cats tail wrapped around your leg. The minerality of the Jura soil shines like the sun here. Though it's light, this wine still stands tall when matched with a semi-strong cheese and truffles – Do it! Fruit is from Alice’s vines in her Corvées vineyard which lies close to the village of Montigny les Arsures. The soil here is considered to be perfect for the sensitive grape variety. It is here that Puffeney and Michel Gahier tend their acclaimed vineyards of the Trousseau grape.

Some wines you have to try in your life. Alice’s are a good example. Made in impossibly small quantities, Alice Bouvot sets to work in her Arbois winery using organic grapes from her 3.6 hectares of vineyards scattered around and about the town. She has access to some of the most beautiful sites in the Jura; En Curon, La Maillloche, Les Nouvelles, etc. All it is is love, time and grapes. Some are classical expressions of an old region, oxidative and magical whites, or butterfly-footstep-light reds. The others, an almost diabolical twist from the norm, keep that aforementioned butterfly on its toes. Because there’s not a lot of fruit to rely on each year, she occasionally buys fruit from friends around France (as the De Moor’s do), but you can always tell her signature wine making stamp. There’s something there, and it’s truly beautiful. 

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