Vignerons Les Matheny Trousseau Arbois, 2021 chiroubles This wine is made from

This wine is made from 100% Altesse

François labels his wines Côtes du Jura because he does not produce them in the same oxidative style required for the AOC

The wine is aged for a year in a 25-hectoliter botte previously used to age their Amarone

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There is also a hint of honey and spice in the residual sugar left behind in the bottle

Vignerons Les Matheny Trousseau Arbois, 2021 chiroubles This wine is made fromThis wine is made from 100% Trousseau. We would pair it with duck confit. This is a serious beast of a wine with loads of electricity. It is rich with spiced red fruit, leather and black pepper, with rugged tannins that deserve a decent decanting or time in the cellar. The wine is reminiscent of a rustic Bandol rouge, but if that bottle of Bandol was raised up in the mountains with a little more of an edge.