2019 Domaine Montbourgeau L'Etoile Vin Jaune, Jura, France Edmunds St. John no inoculations

no inoculations

it’s just beginning to enter its long drinking window

Sourced from a one hectare of 80 year olds vines in Sassella

Yield: 21 hL / Ha

Grape: Zinfandel

2019 Domaine Montbourgeau L'Etoile Vin Jaune, Jura, France Edmunds St. John no inoculationsMade exclusively from the Savagnin grape, the Vin Jaune of Montbourgeau is always produced from a late harvest. After fermentation the wine is racked into foudres (30 hectoliter size) and then, after six months, racked again into smaller barrels. It is never topped off, the voile appears and the wine is left for at least seven years to age in barrel before being declared Vin Jaune and being bottled. The Jaune of Montbourgeau is more high toned than