Savignin
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2028
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Comté cheese, roasted chicken with morels, creamy mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
Frédéric Cossard, the legendary Burgundy natural winemaker, ventures into the neighboring Jura region to source exceptional fruit for this cuvée. Crafted under his négociant label, this wine represents a brilliant bridge between Burgundian precision and Jura's wild, historic terroir. Rather than adopting the traditional oxidative 'sous-voile' (under a veil of yeast) style common to the Jura, Cossard vinifies this Savagnin in an 'ouillé' (topped-up) fashion. This non-oxidative method preserves the grape's electric acidity, intense mineral drive, and pure citrus and stone fruit character. Fermented with indigenous yeasts and bottled entirely without added sulfur, it is a vibrant, living testament to Cossard's non-interventionist mastery and the ancient heritage of the Savagnin grape.
🍾 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
Savagnin