Benedicte & Stephane Tissot, Cotes du Jura Pinot Noir En Barberon

Benedicte & Stephane Tissot, Cotes du Jura Pinot Noir En BarberonThe 2020 En Barberon Pinot Noir is from clay soils and fermented with 100% full clusters in open wooden tanks and matured in well seasoned barriques for two years. There is some stemmy greenness that gives freshness and adds complexity with some spiciness. Tissot used a little bit of sulfur (minimal) here.

this 2019 reflects the new precision that Frédéric Faye has brought to Figeac

chalky frame and perfumed fruit character

I very much like the way the lacy flavors manage to convey such flavor authority

The flavor profile is perhaps not quite as enticing

Because of very low yields and a warm and dry season

black cherry and hints of the sauvage

orange peel and leather plus notes of dried herbs

As is typically the case there is more volume and midpalate concentration to the focused medium-bodied flavors that are shaped by somewhat finer tannins on the lacy and impressively refined finale

A wonderfully elegant

pipe tobacco

A wonderfully spicy

sexy oak flourish