Fumey-Chatelain Arbois Pinot Noir Aux Melinaux 2022 CS20230804 and Mondeuse

and Mondeuse

Drink chilled or at room temperature with oysters or soft ripened cheeses such as Camembert

the wine ages in French oak before bottling unfined and unfiltered

and this bottle has had 17-plus years on lees plus additional bottle aging to layer in complexity

This is one of the few areas in Jalisco that mingles plantings of citrus trees in their agave farms providing a very unique terroir

Fumey-Chatelain Arbois Pinot Noir Aux Melinaux 2022 CS20230804 and MondeuseBurgundy is barely an hour west, and the Jura has been growing Pinot Noir for about as long as anyone can remember it's just that nobody outside France thinks to look here for it. Aux Melinaux comes from a single Arbois parcel planted in 2002, on clay studded with fossilized oyster shells. Marin Fumey works it the gentle way: whole clusters, a slow three week infusion, a year in barrel, very little poking and prodding. The result is silky and savory,