Arbois Pupillin Chardonnay Côte de Caillot

Smoked salmon and sword or a chicken terrine in white wine sauce.

The “Côte de Caillot” Chardonnay from Pupillin is grown on a very steep 30-degree south facing slope at 550 meters altitude of gravelly limestone from the Bajocien period (170 million years ago).

Aged in 600 liter barrels on the lees for 12 months.

Fermentation without sulphites and only with indigenous yeasts in 600 liter barrels of 3 to 6 vintages-used.

Julien Mareschal like several of the young vignerons in the Jura was not born into a vine-owning family. In Julien’s case he came to the Jura at the age of 23 from an agricultural family after studying agronomy and then oenology at Dijon. He now has 5 hectares of vines in and around Pupillin some at the highest elevations (550 meters) and all his vines are organic or in conversion to biodynamic.