2014 Frédéric Lambert En Beaumont Château Chalon Vin Jaune

WINEMAKER: Frédéric Lambert
REGION: Jura, FR
VARIETAL: Savagnin
VITICULTURE: Organic

From two new plots in the middle of the bowl of the Chateau Chalon designation on the south west facing slope near the town of Menétru-le-Vignoble. Limited by strict rules. The grapes are harvested from the Lias marl, in a remarkable site. Aging takes place six years and three months after the harvest. The wine is then sold in "clavelins" 62 cl.

Quite giving for this vintage relese and able to be drunk now but will age for decades. Oxidative but fresh style of Vin Jaune. On the nose are white flowers, pureed apples, dried fruit and that pungent aldehyde smell mixed with spices and walnuts. Nice volume in the mouth gaining that glycerol effect from long barrel aging and depth of flavour. The length goes on and on in these wines with that citrus acidity cut and drive.

Being a former employee of the Jura body (SVJ) Société de Viticulture du Jura for 10 years, Frédéric Lambert knows the region, soils and vines of the Jura very well. He started buying vineyards around Toulouse-le-Château in 1993 and later set up his own Domaine in 2003. Organic practices have been implemented from the start and he has been tending and planting that way since the beginning as he believes chemicals “massacre the soil!”