Description
35yo vines here from a vineyard south of Arbois. It is flatter here, towards the bottom of the hill and the soil is very clayey. 100% from the 2016 vintage, the wine was cuve aged before bottling off with no fining or filtration with a low 20g/l for the secondary fermentation that provides a very gentle mousse. Sulphur was only added to the juice at the press and is less than 20 mg/l, and so the juice has a very pure relaxed quality. Showing gorgeous fruit, bitters and cut, this is one of the most exciting sparkling wines that we have ever tasted, and it’s better than many champagnes.
Loreline was bitten by the wine bug, travelling around and falling in love with the Jura region and its wines, she determined to set up on her own and so in 2010, started out with 2.5ha of vineyards, converting a ramshackle rented farm in the flatlands of Tourmont (west of Poligny) into a house, cave and rural gite.
Dynamic plus, she tends a herd of goats and flock of chickens in her ‘spare’ time, and tending a vegetable garden too, she is pretty well self-sufficient. She also gave birth one week before the 2014 harvest, but simply put her baby into a sling whilst she carried on her work (and had her second child during the 2016 vinifications!).
Working initially by herself with no help, except from her horse Amazone for ploughing, she has worked organically from the outset adopting more recently biodynamic practices and little by little has now expanded her collection of small holdings around Arbois and Pupillin to 5ha.
She ages her wines in three to 5yo barrels, doesn’t fine or filter and likes to pick earlier than some in the region. In less than eight years she has progressed apace to the point where she is making some of the most exciting wines in the Jura today. Her wines have incredible elegance and finesse and always thrill with an electric twist of salinity and acidity.
12% / 75cl
