Fumey-Chatelain Arbois Pinot Noir Aux Melinaux 2022 NO20230712 and 2011 was an excellent

and 2011 was an excellent vintage there

and built for food

Villers Marmery

Pressed whole-cluster and bottled unfiltered

Fermented with native yeasts and aged in a mix of stainless steel and oak

Fumey-Chatelain Arbois Pinot Noir Aux Melinaux 2022 NO20230712 and 2011 was an excellentBurgundy 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,