2016 Domaine de la Renardiere Maceration de Savagnin, Jura, France KOBAL velvety anise

velvety anise

just a few hundred meters below the Premier Cru vineyard Les Charmes

2018 Veyder-Malberg Buschenberg Weissenkirchener Ried Riesling

pressed with no skin contact and fermented warm to dryness

and then in 2006 he converted his vineyards to biodynamic winegrowing

2016 Domaine de la Renardiere Maceration de Savagnin, Jura, France KOBAL velvety aniseThis is Savagnin made as an orange wine, fermented with native yeasts and left on its skins for 284 days, then aged three years in older barrels. The domainerun by Jean Michel and Laurence Petit in Pupillinhas worked organically for decades and bottles with minimal intervention and low sulfur. The result is powerful and textural, with quince, warm spice, and black tea tones carried by impressive, fine tannins.