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94 WA. "The 2015 Arbois Chardonnay les Bruyères is produced with grapes from Triassic clay soils, which seem to give the wines a very Jura character that I also saw in the Sursis. This matured in barrique for two years. It has the spiciness and nuttiness, with lots of personality—the personality of clay like this is very interesting. This would be called a reductive wine, which can have a longer élevage and can also age nicely in bottle. Some 5,500 bottles were filled in October 2017. Stéphane Tissot works 50 hectares of vineyards, which makes him one of the largest vineyard owners in Jura. 2014 is a very different millésime, but it is one that he likes very much, a year with very good freshness, fresher and cooler, a little more austere and mineral than 2016. 2015 is riper and more powerful. We tasted at 100 mph, the speed at which Tissot talks, in English or in French, and the excursion through the portfolio was fascinating. Tissot is at the head of this game. One of the most important names in Jura." Wine Advocate #234, Dec 2017 |