Skin-Contact Zizifredo
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Southeast Asian cuisine, roasted root vegetables with aromatic herbs, aged sheep's milk cheeses
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by Burgundy's natural wine icon Frédéric Cossard under his négociant label, 'Zizifredo' is a captivating skin-contact white wine that showcases his adventurous spirit. Sourced from organic vineyards outside of Burgundy, this cuvée is made from Muscat à Petits Grains. Cossard applies his signature non-interventionist philosophy to this orange wine, macerating the whole bunches on their skins to extract complex textures, deep amber hues, and exotic aromatics. Fermented with indigenous yeasts and bottled without any added sulfur, Zizifredo is a testament to Cossard's mastery of amphora and low-intervention winemaking, resulting in a wine that is intensely aromatic, dry, and beautifully structured.
🍾 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
Muscat à Petits Grains