La Mailloche
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2038
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Aged Comté cheese, roasted poultry with wild mushrooms, creamy mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from one of the Jura's most revered single vineyards, 'La Mailloche' is a masterclass in terroir-driven winemaking. The vineyard's name itself evokes the grueling physical labor historically required to cultivate its soils, referencing the heavy wooden mallets ('mailloches') once used by vignerons to break up the dense, compacted yellow Triassic clay. Under Stéphane Tissot's biodynamic stewardship, this challenging soil has become the source of incredible vitality. Tissot vinifies La Mailloche in the 'ouillé' (topped-up) style, preserving the pristine, intense fruit and showcasing a profound, almost electric minerality. Fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged in oak barrels, the wine is celebrated for its signature smoky reduction, saline depth, and powerful structure that reflects the ancient clay beneath the vines.
🍾 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%