Domaine Joly 'Cotes du Jura' Poulsard 2023
The Wine
94 Pts Kasia Sobiesiak, The Wine Front ‘This IS ethereal. Light, translucent colour, lifted perfume… But don’t let it fool you, this pretty-looking baby has a grip. There’s plenty of fine savoury detail here. The base is defined by rhubarb and wild strawberries with a decaying edge, damp forest, dead flowers—all in a positive, intriguing way. It has great energy and despite the grip, the texture is fine, reminiscent of wet clay. The nature of tannins could take you to Italy. Not a bad thing. There are crushed rocks here and cinnamon bark, too. It’s a wine that you want to get a snack with and chat. Compelling.’
The Details
Variety -Poulsard
Country - France
Region - Arbois, Jura
Extra - Cork
Year - 2023
Volume - 750ml
About the Wine Maker 
The Joly family have a proud sixty-year Jura history of wine production – the family having originated from Champagne. Winemaker Cedric Joly is the grandson of Michel who founded the domaine after moving from Champagne following WWII in search of a fresh start.
Cedric brings his experience from working in Burgundy, a region with a similar terroir, to the traditional winemaking of Jura. He makes sustainable, small production wines from the historic grapes of the region. One of the most intriguing is Trousseau, a grape that makes light and transparent reds that are wild and aromatic.
The domaine is based in the Southern Jurain the commune of Rotalier. Here the magic is made in the cold blue marl soils (decomposed limestone/clay). These notoriously hard & unforgiving soils to work allow the Savagnin & Chardonnay to reach mythical & enviable maturity, minerality and acidity - quite unique to the area.
Farming is organic and yields are impossibly low to always ensure quality is maintained. Like many Jura producers, the whites are released with significant bottle age & the reds quite young. None of Cedric’s whites are topped up yet they are very pure & show piercing minerality & very high salinity.
