Amphore Poulsard
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed within 2–8 years from vintage release.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Charcuterie boards, roasted duck breast, wild mushroom tart
✨ Technical Specifications
Stéphane and Bénédicte Tissot's 'Amphore Poulsard' represents a profound return to ancient winemaking traditions in the Jura. Poulsard, a thin-skinned, pale-colored grape native to the region, is highly sensitive and expressive of its terroir. In this cuvée, Tissot eschews modern oak and stainless steel in favor of terracotta amphorae, where the hand-harvested grapes undergo a long maceration on the skins with indigenous yeasts and absolutely no added sulfur. This clay-aging vessel allows for gentle micro-oxygenation, softening the grape's rustic tannins while preserving its delicate, wild red fruit profile, forest floor aromatics, and distinct mineral edge derived from the region's triassic clay and marl soils.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1962 by André and Mireille Tissot in Montigny-lès-Arsures, Domaine Tissot underwent an epochal transformation when Stéphane and Bénédicte Tissot assumed leadership in 1990. Propelling Jura winemaking into global reverence, they eliminated synthetic interventions, attaining organic certification in 1999 and full Demeter biodynamic status in 2004 across roughly 35 to 50 hectares. The estate encompasses preeminent micro-terroirs—notably Les Bruyères, La Mailloche, En Barberon, and Curon—defined by diverse Jurassic limestones and distinctive blue, grey, and red marls situated under continental montane influences. Stéphane champions hyper-parcel vinification using indigenous yeasts, amphorae, minimal sulfur, and unadulterated parcel identity. Tissot's extensive repertoire spans thrillingly chiseled non-oxidative ouillé bottlings like Chardonnay Clos de la Tour de Curon and Les Bruyères, transcendent traditional sous voile expressions, and profound benchmarks of Vin Jaune, culminating in an unyielding masterclass of geological transparency.
🍇 Grapes
Poulsard
🍷 ABV
12-12.5%