Grand Elevage Chardonnay
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
creamy mushroom risotto, roasted chicken with wild mushrooms, aged Comté cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the visionary Stéphane Tissot, the 'Grand Élevage' Chardonnay is a superb testament to the heights that topped-up (ouillé) Jura whites can achieve. Historically, the Jura was synonymous with oxidative winemaking, but Tissot helped pioneer a revolution, proving that the region's clay and limestone soils could yield pristine, mineral-driven Chardonnays to rival Burgundy. This cuvée is a masterful blend of Chardonnay harvested from various biodemocratically farmed parcels across the Arbois appellation. True to its name, 'Grand Élevage' undergoes an extended, patient aging period in oak barrels, allowing the wine to develop a profound textural complexity, striking tension, and a signature smoky, saline minerality that speaks directly of its Jurassic terroir.
🍾 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
Chardonnay
🍷 ABV
13-14%