Vin Jaune Curon
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Aged Comté cheese, chicken with morels and cream sauce, roasted veal with wild mushrooms
✨ Technical Specifications
The 'Clos de la Tour de Curon' is one of the Jura's most legendary terroirs, a historic, steep south-facing amphitheater overlooking Arbois with pure Bajocian limestone soils. Stéphane Tissot painstakingly reclaimed and replanted this parcel in 2001 with Savagnin at an ultra-high density of 12,000 vines per hectare. This Vin Jaune is crafted through traditional, patient oxidative aging, spending over six years 'sous voile' (under a veil of flor yeast) in un-topped oak casks. The result is a monumental, deeply mineral expression of Savagnin, marrying intense saline tension with complex notes of walnut, fenugreek, dried orange peel, and exotic spices.
🍾 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
Savagnin
🍷 ABV
14-14.5%