Domaine Joly 'Cotes du Jura' Trousseau 2023
The Wine
Cedric Joly is considered somewhat of a Trousseau specialist. He works exclusively with Trousseau à la Dame’ widely considered the most complex & best clone of Trousseau.
Our previous shipment the 2022, This vin is mainly destine for some of Australia's finest restaurant wine lists - but here is your chance…
The 23 is full of crunchy raspberry, strawbeety & rhubarb, a faint dusting of white pepper & woodsmoke. It's a delicate, spotlessly clean & very elegant expression of Trousseau. Raised only in stainless steel - so little colour but so much delicate complexity.
94 Pts Kasia Sobiesiak, The Wine Front ‘Not far from being defined as a rosé, it’s a colour quite easy on the eye. That coral hue gracefully carries notes that are wild and medicinal, savoury and meaty. Crochet of herbs with delicate wild berries works perfectly with the lacy tannin and texture. With its sous-bois character, sweet leaves, fennel seeds, and crunchy forest fruit, it is something of an alpine light red. Just lovely.’
The Details
Variety -Trousseau
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.
