Deuxiemes Jus
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted poultry, creamy mushroom risotto, grilled sea bass
✨ Technical Specifications
Jean-Marie Guffens is a legendary iconoclast of Burgundy, famous for challenging established winemaking dogmas. The 'Deuxièmes Jus' (literally 'second juices') cuvée is a direct testament to his revolutionary philosophy. While traditional estates often downgrade or discard the second pressings, Guffens believes that these juices—extracted with slightly more pressure—contain essential phenolics, structure, and mineral salts bound to the grape skins. Sourced from his meticulously farmed Chardonnay plots in the Mâconnais, this wine is fermented with natural yeasts and aged on its lees. The result is a white of unexpected depth, boasting a rich texture balanced by a vibrant, saline mineral core, proving that masterly handling of the entire press cycle can yield a truly monumental wine.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1979 by Flemish visionaries Jean-Marie Guffens and Maine Heynen, Domaine Guffens-Heynen transformed the viticultural perception of the southern Mâconnais. Spanning just over 5.3 hectares across the limestone-rich slopes of Vergisson, Pierreclos, and Davayé, the estate operates on a philosophy of meticulous canopy management, strict yield restrictions, and zero chemical treatments, strictly independent of formal certification regimes. Harvests are carried out across multiple manual passes to secure fruit at pristine physiological ripeness. In the cellar, Guffens employs gentle parcel-by-parcel extractions using a vintage vertical press, rigorous separation of press fractions (yielding his signature 'Premiers Jus' bottlings), native yeast fermentations, and extended lees aging in French oak with minimal batonnage. Benchmark bottlings such as Mâcon-Pierreclos Le Chavigne, Juliette et les Vieilles de Chavigne, and Pouilly-Fuissé Premier Cru Sur la Roche embody an unmistakable masterclass of dramatic power, crystalline acidity, and singular mineral tension that rivals the greatest white burgundies of the Côte de Beaune.
🍇 Grapes
Chardonnay