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 and taken over by their son Stéphane alongside his wife Bénédicte in 1990, Domaine Bénédicte & Stéphane Tissot is an iconic benchmark of the Jura region, located in the village of Montigny-lès-Arsures near Arbois, France. A relentless pioneer of organic and biodynamic viticulture, Stéphane transitioned the estate to biodynamics in the early 2000s, championing minimal-intervention cellar techniques and native yeast fermentations to reveal hyper-specific terroirs. The domaine produces an extraordinary array of wines spanning profound single-vineyard Chardonnays from sites like Clos de la Tour de Curon and La Mailloche, energetic Savagnins, traditional sous-voile Vin Jaune, vibrant reds from indigenous Trousseau and Poulsard, and exceptional Crémant du Jura such as Indigène. Celebrated for their mineral intensity, purity, and vibrant tension, the estate's artisanal bottlings have rightfully elevated the global reputation of Jura winemaking.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Poulsard
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
12-12.5%