Structure
Drinking window
Best 2 to 20 years from vintage.
vintage2 yrs20 yrs22 yrs
Critic scores
No critic score is published for this bottle that we can cite with a reviewer, a vintage and a review year, so none is shown. The rating in the header is our own.
In the glass
Aroma: orchard fruit, spice
Palate: orchard fruit, spice, cedar
A single 0.95 hectare parcel of heavy Trias clay over blue marl facing due south, vines planted between 1938 and 1973. The estate's sheet records a very pure, mineral wine with fruit and spice, a lively dense palate and a light oak frame still showing. No veil ageing is described for this cuvee, unlike the estate's Selection.
What it pairs with
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Scallops
The estate names St Jacques specifically among its matches. -
Shellfish
Tissot lists crustaceans; the cuvee's tension and salinity suit them. -
Grilled white fish
Fish leads the estate's own pairing list for this parcel. -
White meats
The estate closes its list with white meat, where the barrel frame gives enough weight.
Facts
- Producer
- Domaine Andre et Mireille Tissot · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Chardonnay (100%)
- Classification
- Arbois AOC
- Oak
- Hand picked into crates, pneumatic pressing, spontaneous fermentation, then fermentation and ageing together for 24 months on lees in 228 litre barrels, 20 percent of them new. Bottled after a light filtration, with total SO2 held under 40 mg per litre.
- Drinking window
- 2-20 from vintage