Les Bruyères

Domaine Tissot

Les Bruyères is a south facing plot on clay and blue marl, planted with selection massale, with vines as old as 80 years old mixed in with new selected shoots planted at wild densities to generate competition between the vines (while each vine is culled to produce only two or three bunches of grapes for concentration). Drink now or age 10-20 years. Decant one hour, serve at 10-12ºC.

Country:  France

Region:  Arbois, Jura

Appellation:  Arbois AOC

Climate:  Cool Continental

Altitude:  250 - 450m

Soils:  Clay & Blue Marl

Varietal/Blend:  100% Chardonnay

Fermentation:  Spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeast.

Ageing:  24 months in French oak barriques on the lees. Unfined, unfiltered, vegan.

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Biodynamic. Les Bruyères is a south facing plot on clay and blue marl, planted with selection massale, with vines as 45 to 80 years old mixed in with new selected shoots planted at wild densities to generate competition between the vines (while each vine is culled to produce only two or three bunches of grapes for concentration). Tissot's unique Rose Chardonnay pink mutation also grows in Les Bruyères. The soil is composed of a thick layer of wash silt (between 10 and 30cm) which covers the Rhetian schist marls formed in the shallow lagoons that occupied the Jura between 252-201 million years ago (Triassic geological period).

ABV:  14.0%

Produced Cases: 

CSPC:  845929

About the Producer

Bénédicte et Stéphane Tissot


Arbois, Jura, France

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Les Bruyères
Domaine Tissot
Les Bruyères is a south facing plot on clay and blue marl, planted with selection massale, with vines as old as 80 years old mixed in with new selected shoots planted at wild densities to generate competition between the vines (while each vine is culled to produce only two or three bunches of grapes for concentration). Drink now or age 10-20 years. Decant one hour, serve at 10-12ºC.

TECHNICAL INFO

Country:  France

Region:  Arbois, Jura

Appellation:  Arbois AOC

Climate:  Cool Continental

Altitude:  250 - 450m

Soils:  Clay & Blue Marl

Varietal/Blend:  100% Chardonnay

Fermentation:  Spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeast.

Ageing:  24 months in French oak barriques on the lees. Unfined, unfiltered, vegan.

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Biodynamic. Les Bruyères is a south facing plot on clay and blue marl, planted with selection massale, with vines as 45 to 80 years old mixed in with new selected shoots planted at wild densities to generate competition between the vines (while each vine is culled to produce only two or three bunches of grapes for concentration). Tissot's unique Rose Chardonnay pink mutation also grows in Les Bruyères. The soil is composed of a thick layer of wash silt (between 10 and 30cm) which covers the Rhetian schist marls formed in the shallow lagoons that occupied the Jura between 252-201 million years ago (Triassic geological period).

ABV:  14.0%

Produced Cases: 

CSPC:  845929

Andrew Stewart | Calgary + Alberta South

T: 403-604-0408 | E: andrew@vinoalvino.ca

Joe Gurba | Edmonton + Alberta North

 T: 780-203-5284 | E: joe@vinoalvino.ca

Les Bruyères
Domaine Tissot
Les Bruyères is a south facing plot on clay and blue marl, planted with selection massale, with vines as old as 80 years old mixed in with new selected shoots planted at wild densities to generate competition between the vines (while each vine is culled to produce only two or three bunches of grapes for concentration). Drink now or age 10-20 years. Decant one hour, serve at 10-12ºC.

TECHNICAL INFO

Country:  France

Region:  Arbois, Jura

Appellation:  Arbois AOC

Climate:  Cool Continental

Altitude:  250 - 450m

Soils:  Clay & Blue Marl

Varietal/Blend:  100% Chardonnay

Fermentation:  Spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeast.

Ageing:  24 months in French oak barriques on the lees. Unfined, unfiltered, vegan.

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Biodynamic. Les Bruyères is a south facing plot on clay and blue marl, planted with selection massale, with vines as 45 to 80 years old mixed in with new selected shoots planted at wild densities to generate competition between the vines (while each vine is culled to produce only two or three bunches of grapes for concentration). Tissot's unique Rose Chardonnay pink mutation also grows in Les Bruyères. The soil is composed of a thick layer of wash silt (between 10 and 30cm) which covers the Rhetian schist marls formed in the shallow lagoons that occupied the Jura between 252-201 million years ago (Triassic geological period).

ABV:  14.0%

Produced Cases: 

CSPC:  845929

Calgary + Alberta South

Andrew Stewart

403-604-0408

andrew@vinoalvino.ca

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780-203-5284

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