Vignerons Les Matheny 2021 Trousseau, Arbois AOC

Item Number: 21567

UPC: None

Country: France
Region: Jura
Sub Region: Jura
Appellation/AVA: Arbois AOC
Estate Grown Wine: Yes
Vintage: 2021
Grape(s): 100% Trousseau
Type: Wine - Red
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Pack: 12
Closure: Cork
Alc by Vol(%): 13
Viticulture: Practicing Organic
Soil Type: Grey/blue limestone-clay marls

Tasting Notes: Emeric’s Trousseau is a brooding beast, bristling with energy and thickly textured. Its brash, iron-inflected nose erupts from the glass, with pitch-black, spice-drenched fruit battling for attention with the wine’s core of mineral-tinged black pepper. This is a structured, rugged wine that seems to demand cellar time, but the honest tannins are somehow charming despite their intensity.

Winemaking Notes: Following total destemming, the Trousseau ferments spontaneously in fiberglass tanks. The wine is racked after malolactic and remains on its fine lees for 18-30 months in neutral oak demi-muids until assemblage prior to bottling. It is bottled unfined and lightly plate filtered.

About the Estate: Few in the region are as talented as Emeric Foléat of the tiny Les Matheny domaine in Arbois. Emeric worked for eight years under the legendary Jacques Puffeney, who taught him the ultimate value in embracing risk and trusting the quality of his fruit to do its thing in the cellar without coercion.