Cavarodes Côtes du Jura Ostrea Virgula 2021
HK$ 768.99
Domaine des Cavarodes
Côtes du Jura
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
I had the excellent ouillé white 2021 Côtes du Jura Ostrea Virgula at one of the finest restaurants in Jura, Le Comptoir Kokagué, where they do Japanese-inspired cuisine with French ingredients It's located 10 minutes north of Arbois and has one of the finest wine lists from the region. The wines from Cavarodes have been getting more and more precise, delineated, clean, pure and sharp, and this 2021 has to be one of the finest I've yet encountered. It's sharp and precise, with pungent and effervescent acidity, coming from a very challenging and low-yielding vintage where the resulting quality was superb but volumes dismissal. This has detail, elegance and beautiful symmetry. It has 13% alcohol, full development of aromas and flavors and is nicely textured, with terrific balance. It seems to be made for long aging in bottle. Superb!
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Alcohol
13.0%
Grapes
Serving
Between 8ºC and 10ºC
Winemaking
Fermented with indigenous yeasts. Aged in old French oak barrels. Bottled unfiltered, unfined and without added sulphites.
Description
In a wild corner of the Jura, Etienne Thiébaud founded Domaine des Cavarodes with a firm philosophy: to restore wine to its natural roots, without artifice or concessions. His history is marked by unusual decisions: to abandon engineering to cultivate forgotten vines, to rehabilitate remote plots of land in the midst of biodynamic conversion and to make wine in a radically natural way. One of their most evocative projects is Cavarodes Côtes du Jura Ostrea Virgula, a 100% Savagnin wine that takes its name from the ancient fossilised ostracods present in the Kimmeridgian soils that dominate the plot. Here, limestone and grey marl dialogue with a harsh continental climate, generating a telluric tension that runs through the wine from start to finish. The AOC Côtes du Jura, with its ancestral winemaking heritage, is the perfect setting for this pure, unadulterated expression of Savagnin. Thiébaud chose to vinify this wine without flor (no oxidative ageing), choosing the road less travelled in a region where the traditional approach is to let the yeast veil mark the wine's profile. A courageous decision, which offers a more electric and mineral face of the Jura.
Winemaking
Cavarodes Côtes du Jura Ostrea Virgula is vinified with an almost reverential respect for the grape. The grapes are harvested by hand, selecting healthy clusters of Savagnin from soils rich in marine debris. The grapes are gently pressed and fermented with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel tanks, where the wine rests for a year on its fine lees. The wine is then racked into old neutral barrels for a brief additional ageing under the principle of ouillage (topping up), preventing oxidation. It is neither filtered nor clarified, and only a minimal dose of sulphur is added before bottling. The result is a wine of minimal intervention, but of maximum expression.
Taste
From the first contact, Cavarodes Côtes du Jura Ostrea Virgula displays an austere and precise vibrancy. The nose evokes grapefruit rind, candied lime, dried flowers and a salinity reminiscent of sea rock. The palate is taut, sharp, with a cutting acidity that channels all the energy of the Jurassic soil. There are notes of white fruit without overripeness, hints of alpine herbs and a dry, almost chalky minerality. The texture is firm, uncompromising, like a wine chiselled in stone. The finish is long, vibrant, with saline echoes and a lingering hint of cinquefoil. A wine for those in search of liquid truth, without ornamentation, pure Jura in its raw and exciting state.
Shipping to Hong Kong
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