Skin-Contact Feel Good
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Aged Comté cheese, roasted pork belly, spicy Thai curry
✨ Technical Specifications
Frédéric Cossard's 'Skin-Contact Feel Good' is a captivating expression of Savagnin, sourced from the neighboring Jura region and vinified with Cossard's signature low-intervention mastery in Burgundy. Born from his desire to explore the limits of skin maceration, this orange wine undergoes extended contact with grape skins, often utilizing Georgian qvevris (clay amphorae) for fermentation and aging. This ancient technique coaxes out deep amber hues, complex phenolic structures, and an array of exotic aromatics ranging from dried orange peel and black tea to wild mountain herbs. Bottled entirely without added sulfur, it is a testament to Cossard's philosophy of capturing the raw, unadulterated energy of the grape, bridging the historic traditions of Jura and Georgia with Burgundian finesse.
🍾 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