Michel Gahier, Arbois, Mademoiselle D Trousseau, 2023
Michel Gahier, Arbois, Mademoiselle D Trousseau, 2023

Michel Gahier, Arbois, Mademoiselle D, Trousseau, 2023

£67.00

This is a new wine for us at Vins-Clairs, made from a plot that Michel rents from a local winegrower daughter that died recently. Crafted from the rare, dark-skinned Trousseau Noir grape—a late-ripening variant—the vines average 80 years old and are vinified in the same low-intervention fashion as the rest of the estate’s wines. The result is a dark, concentrated, and spicy expression.

This is a new wine for us at Vins-Clairs, made from a plot that Michel rents from a local winegrower daughter that died recently. Crafted from the rare, dark-skinned Trousseau Noir grape—a late-ripening variant—the vines average 80 years old and are vinified in the same low-intervention fashion as the rest of the estate’s wines. The result is a dark, concentrated, and spicy expression.

Michel is the first generation to solely focus on viticulture and bottling wines, taking over in 1990. Now cultivating around 8ha planted with Chardonnay, Melon a queue Rouge, Trousseau and a little Savagnin from which he makes only a limited quantity of vin Jaune. The cellar is filled with large old foudres and looks as if time stood still. All his wines are plot specific. You may be a Jura aficionado and have never encountered Michel’s wine, this is quite possible. For sure they will leave a lasting impact on you once you do.

Grape Variety: Trousseau Age of Vines: 50 years old Terroir: Limestone Gravel Exposition: South West Vinification: The grapes are harvested very ripe, destemmed by hand on the spot and then put in casks by gravity. Maceration for a month, intervening as little as possible followed by devatting and putting back into smaller barrels.