Fumey-Chatelain Arbois Savagnin Sous Voile 2019 0426JACKSON mountain bluet

mountain bluet

Salt wind and limestone give the wine an electric

and this pink is their playful nod to the German pop song of the same name

then finishes them for nine months in Cabernet Sauvignon wine barrels

Fumey-Chatelain Arbois Savagnin Sous Voile 2019 0426JACKSON mountain bluetHere's the Jura's great magic trick. Fill a barrel with Savagnin, then refuse to top it up: a film of yeast grows across the surface, and there it stays. The wine doesn't spoil it transforms, picking up walnut, green apple, curry spice and an intensity that lands somewhere between white wine and fino sherry while staying bone dry. Fumey Chatelain's version comes from marl soils in Arbois and spends three years under that veil in barrel. It is not a