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 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
Chardonnay
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
13-14%