Description
Jean-Luc Mouillard grew up in the Jura, where his family focused on dairy cattle, and sold the grapes they farmed to the local co-op. As soon as Mouillard finished school, however, he headed off to study winemaking. He came back home to Jura after a year’s experience in Beaune and established his own domaine in 1991.
This particular bottling, made in the more modern, ‘fresh’ mode of Savagnin, really startled me. It is bold, tenacious, defiantly gutsy. ‘Such an interesting nose. Smells of sour cream, acacia blossom, goat-milk butter. With a bit of toastiness – like thickly buttered toast popped under the grill until dark golden brown.