Structure
Drinking window
Best 2 to 12 years from vintage.
vintage2 yrs12 yrs14 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: white flowers
Chardonnay from a massal selection of Melon a queue rouge, grown on blackish blue fossil-rich marl in the Val de Valliere reculee. The cask is kept topped up throughout so the floral character of the grape stays forward rather than developing veil aromas. The domaine calls it a floral wine.
What it pairs with
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Freshwater fish
A topped-up Chardonnay with lees texture but no oxidative weight suits river fish. -
Goat cheese
The floral register and acidity cut fresh cheese cleanly. -
Roast chicken
Lees stirring gives the fat the domaine describes, enough for white meat.
Facts
- Producer
- Domaine Pignier · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Chardonnay (100%)
- Classification
- Cotes du Jura AOC
- Oak
- Slowly pressed into 228 litre oak pieces with no settling and no racking, fermented and aged in the same barrel with lees stirring and regular topping up for 12 to 18 months
- Drinking window
- 2-12 from vintage