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 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
Savagnin
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
14-14.5%