Vin Jaune En Spois
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Aged Comté cheese, chicken with morels and cream sauce, roasted veal with wild mushrooms
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the historic 'En Spois' climat in Arbois, this Vin Jaune is a masterclass in oxidative winemaking. The vineyard, planted in 1971 on heavy, poorly drained Triassic clay soils, imparts a distinct power and deep minerality to the Savagnin grapes. Following traditional methods, the wine is aged for over six years under a naturally occurring veil of yeast, known as 'la voile', in un-topped oak barrels. This slow, deliberate exposure to oxygen coaxes out legendary complexity, marked by notes of walnut, fenugreek, dried fruits, and exotic spices. The wine is bottled in the traditional 62cl Clavelin, the unique bottle shape representing the volume remaining from a full liter of wine after years of evaporation—the legendary 'angels' share'.
🍾 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