Benoit Badoz Cotes du Jura Savagnin 2020
This wine is made entirely from Savagnin, a grape native to the Jura region, where it thrives and produces highly aromatic wines. While small plantings exist elsewhere, Jura remains its true home. Unlike the region’s traditional oxidized styles, this is a bone-dry white wine with a fresh, unoxidised profile. It offers rich, spicy, and mineral-driven flavours with subtle earthy notes, reminiscent of mushrooms. Aged in oak barrels for over 3 years.
Domaine BADOZ is located in Poligny in the heart of the Jura, on the terroir of "Roussots" and "Grands Roussots". For over ten generations, the Badoz family has cultivated the Jura terroir with passion and dedication. Since 1659, their expertise has been passed down from father to son, preserving tradition while refining winemaking techniques. Old Chapel Cellars
A classic style of the Jura, with notes of walnuts an hazelnuts combined with fresh morel mushrooms, and enhanced by spice. The palate is at once rich, harmonious and nutty with a persistent finish.
Winemakers comments
Benoit cultivates according to the specifications of organic farming, with the aim of maintaining a natural ecological balance and biodiversity. Grasses are planted in every other row and no chemical products are used, instead ploughing of the soils. The variety of native yeasts on the grapes permits wild fermentation and the use of minimal levels of SO2.
Food matching
It is a perfect accompaniment (and indeed ingredient) for local specialties such as ‘Chicken with Vin Jaune’, Comté cheese or white meats including pork, veal and sweetbreads.
Vinification
The hand-harvested savagnin for the typé is spontaneously fermented in stainless steel vats, then aged for 3 years in oak barrels in the Domaine Badoz centuries-old cellars, without topping up. Natural evaporation occurs, reducing the production by around a third. Originally destined (potentially) for Vin Jaune, a selection of barrels is made and the aging halted, to create this wine.
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