Vin Jaune 2016 Sous Le Vegetal united by a shared admiration

united by a shared admiration for growers who farm with respect for the land

where they work old plots on limestone

this process is repeated with the new vintage while waiting for them to mature prior to blending

and gentle extraction in the cellar kept it lifted

Vin Jaune 2016 Sous Le Vegetal united by a shared admirationVin jaune is the Jura's great act of patience. Savagnin goes into barrel and is left there without topping up for six years and three months, while a veil of yeast forms across the surface and slowly rebuilds the wine underneath it. What comes out is bottled in a clavelin, the squat 620ml bottle that holds what remains of a litre after all those years of evaporation. Jean Michel and Laurence Petit have farmed organically at Arbois Pupillin since 2010,