Structure
Drinking window
Best 5 to 50 years from vintage.
vintage5 yrs50 yrs52 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: walnut, dried fruit, citrus
Palate: walnut, spice
Demeter-certified Savagnin from the Val de Valliere reculee, seven years under the veil in cellars that date from the thirteenth century. Pignier records a golden robe, a fine powerful nose of dried fruit and citrus, and a palate where walnut returns with spice over great length.
What it pairs with
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Sea fish in white sauce
Named by the domaine, which pours the wine at 16 degrees. -
Mushrooms in spiced sauce
Pignier lists champignons with spiced sauces for this bottle. -
Strong cheese
The producer calls for fromages de caractere.
Facts
- Producer
- Domaine Pignier · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Savagnin (100%)
- Classification
- Cotes du Jura AOC
- Oak
- Seven years fermenting and ageing in oak pieces under the veil in thirteenth-century cellars, with no topping up and no racking. No added yeast, no chaptalisation, no oenological additives. Bottled on a root day of the lunar calendar in the 62 cl clavelin
- Drinking window
- 5-50 from vintage