GRAPES: 100% SAVIGNIN
SKIN CONTACT: 1 DAY
REGION: JURA + BURGUNDY, FRANCE
Vinification method: Frédéric Cossard is a larger than life character. He is a man with an infectious joie de vivre, with a real passion for life and a love of wine that runs deep. Fred wasn’t born into a family of vignerons and so had to start from scratch - not the simplest to do in Burgundy. Domaine de Chassorney was born in 1996 with a few hectares of vines rented in Saint Romain and Auxey Duresses. It now comprises ten hectares of vines across several villages. He also acts as a négociant, which gives him access to fruit from some of the greatest vineyards in Burgundy. These wines are bottled eponymously, as ‘Frédéric Cossard’.
From a parcel planted with fifty year old vines over Jurassic marl near Rotalier, this is a direct press of Savagnin vinified in the Burgundian or ‘ouillé’ style and aged in old barriques for six months. Bottled unfined, unfiltered, and with no added SO2.
Tasting notes: medium-bodied, barnyard, tangerine, papaya, mango, seaweed, sauerkraut, herbs
Pairings: five spice duck
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