Crémant du Jura, Valerie Tissot - NV

Name: Crémant du Jura, Valerie Tissot
Brand: Valerie Tissot
SKU: 38284
Price: 34.96 USD
Availability: InStock

Item # 38284 750 mL

The base wine aged for a year in foudres before bottling for the second fermentation. After 2 years sur lattes, the wine was disgorged. This is the quintessential sparkling wine for oysters and pâté. It's dry on the palate with a fragrant aromas and a fine bead you can only attain through the Champagne Method of two fermentations.

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Color

White

Vintage

Country

France

Region

Jura

Producer

Valerie Tissot

Grape Variety

Chardonnay

Production Methods

Organic

Practicing Organic

Wine made from grapes grown without synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides in the vineyard.

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Staff Pick Notes

If you're familiar with Jura wines at all, then you know that the name Tissot is wine royalty. The family, however, not only has deep roots, but many branches so it can be hard to keep track of them all. But just know that when a Tissot is making the wine you're in for something special. Valerie and her brother Jean-Christophe oversee this Domaine, which has 15 ha throughout the region. This bottling is 100% Chardonnay and is crémant at its finest: bright, dry, a little toasty, saline with hints of green apple and wet stone. Aging the still wine for a year in large neutral barrels and another 2 years in bottles sur lattes gives the wine some extra texture and depth. Pair with oysters, smoked fish or even caviar and treat yourself royally.

- ALM

Glossary

Chardonnay

From Champagne to Chablis, it's hard (not to mention unpleasant) to avoid this famous white variety. During a huge popularity surge beginning in the late 1980s, Chardonnay plantings have increased dramatically -- not only in California's wine country, with which the variety is nearly synonymous, but also in Burgundy (its original, Old World home) and just about everywhere else in the winemaking world. It is a flexible, eager-to-please grape, responding well to just about anything a winemaker...

Jura

A petite and relatively obscure wine region in eastern France, between Burgundy and the Swiss border. Its geographical isolation has helped it to remain a rare bastion of traditional winemaking techniques, and today it produces some of the most distinctive wines in the world. Reds from the Jura are often light-bodied, earthy, berried, and reminiscent of the village wines of Burgundy (though here they are made of local grapes like Poulsard and Trousseau). The true specialty of the region,...