ドメーヌ・イチ／Domaine ICHI
Cuvee Patchwork Chardonnay
Cuvee Patchwork Chardonnay
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CUVEE PATCHWORK CHARDONNAY 2022
Region: Jura, France
Grape: Chardonnay
Category: White
An extremely rare cuvée with only 5 cases imported to Japan.
The clay terroir gives the wine structure,
The limestone geology brings out the minerality and acidity.
In 2021, frost, hail and rain caused the harvest to fall by 30%...
Despite the tough year, the power of the 45-60 year old vines was greater than usual!
The name "Patchwork" comes from the complexity of the mosaic-like soil.
Aged for 12 months in 228L wooden barrels.
[Producer information]
The domaine was founded in 1962 and is currently headed by the third generation, Stephan, who took over in 1990.
He has experience working in wineries overseas and has a broad perspective, having been involved in winemaking in Beaune, Burgundy for five years. He has been practicing biodynamic farming since 2004.
Currently, the estate owns approximately 40 hectares of vineyards.
When it comes to the Jura region, the "mastermind of natural wine," Pierre Auvernoy, comes to mind, and he has even praised him as "a winemaker representing Jura."
·soil
Due to uplift 1000 years ago, across the Saône River, Jura has soil that is hundreds of millions of years old. (In Burgundy, the land is flat and you have to dig 500m underground to reach the limestone.) Due to the uplift of the Alps, many hills with complex soil composition were created in Jura. The wines that are produced from this complex soil cannot be described in a single word, such as "Chardonnay from Arbois." At Tissot, Chardonnay, Trousseau, and Pinot Noir are grown in the Marne (blue marl) limestone soil of Trias, and Poulsard and Savagnin are grown in the clay-rich soil.
The grapes are harvested by hand and vinified separately for each plot.
Damaged grapes are sorted in the field, and unripe grapes are sorted further in a curved ladle. Poursard grapes have such a thin skin that they will burst if insects such as bees touch them. The grapes are then immediately de-stemmed by hand at the top of the tank, and plump, fully ripe grapes fall into the tank along with the juice. The rejected bunches are used for sparkling wine.
Most of the cuvées are unfiltered and sulfurous acid is kept to a minimum, resulting in natural winemaking without any artificial intervention!
