2010 Cotes du Jura Les Vignes de Mon Pere

This is the wine we had all been waiting to be bottled. The 2010 Les Vignes de Mon Père, a Savagnin from schiste carton marl soils in the lieu-dit of Les Champs Bernards, was finally put into bottle the 30th of October 2024, after almost 14 years in topped-up 600-liter barrels with no added sulfur dioxide. The wine reveals a slightly darker shade of gold and a subtle and calmed-down nose, slowly unfurling more complex aromas of caramelized yellow fruit, and it's dense and complex. It was produced from the Savagnin Vert biotype of the grape that delivers a more austere nose than the Savagnin Jaune, the yellow variety, and it also delivers lower yields. It has incredible energy and light, and it's very long, tasty and salty, very umami-tasting. 1,000 bottles produced. On two previous occasions, I had tasted this wine unbottled next to another 10 vintages of this wine, and it had always showed superbly, above the rest, and the bottled wine delivers all those tastings had promised. I've been uncorking some older vintages from my cellar recently, and the wines are aging very slowly. This is at the top of the hierarchy. The stuff dreams are made of. Bravo!!