Ploussard
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed within 1–5 years from vintage release to fully appreciate its vibrant fruit and delicate natural energy.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Charcuterie boards, roasted duck, earthy mushroom tarts
✨ Technical Specifications
Fr d ric Cossard's Ploussard is a brilliant testament to his curiosity and mastery beyond the borders of his native Burgundy. Sourcing pristine fruit from the revered, iron-rich red marl soils of the Jura—specifically around the historic village of Pupillin, the self-proclaimed world capital of the variety—Cossard brings his signature non-interventionist philosophy to this ancient, thin-skinned grape. The wine is vinified naturally in his Saint-Romain cellars using whole-cluster fermentation and zero sulfur, resulting in a remarkably pure expression. Historically, Ploussard has been cherished in eastern France for centuries, prized for its pale, translucent ruby hue that beautifully blurs the line between a deep ros and an ethereal light red, capturing the rustic, wild soul of the alpine foothills.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1996 by former dairy technician and wine broker Frédéric Cossard, Domaine de Chassorney emerged from the high-altitude, limestone-rich enclave of Saint-Romain in the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune. Expanding from his core estate vineyards into an adventurous micro-négoce under the Frédéric Cossard label, he works across Burgundy, the Jura, Beaujolais, and beyond. Cossard champions a holistic, self-devised 'homeopathic' viticultural method grounded in biodynamic preparations and rigorous soil health. In the cellar, his philosophy is strictly non-interventionist and uncompromisingly clean, relying on negative-ion oxygen sterilization instead of sulfur dioxide. White grapes undergo extended pressing and long spontaneous fermentations without temperature control, while red and macerated cuvées see gentle whole-cluster infusions in open wooden vats, concrete eggs, or qvevri. Known for benchmark skin-contact expressions like 'Feel Good' and 'Rafling' alongside pure expressions of Saint-Romain and Savagnin, Cossard's wines are renowned for their electrifying vitality, textural purity, and luminous clarity.
🍇 Grapes
Ploussard
🍷 ABV
11.5-12.5%