Domaine Tissot, Vin Jaune 'Château Chalon' 2011

You’d go a long way towards grasping the nuances and potential of the Jura by tasting through the wines of Stéphane Tissot. He was a torchbearer for both the natural wine movement and the Jura as a whole, and over the past quarter-century, his wines have helped each break into the global mainstream. Stéphane crafts a wide range of styles, including this regional specialty made from savagnin. Château Chalon denotes a wine style called ‘Vin Jaune’. The savagnin grapes are aged oxidatively like Sherry for years in barrel before bottling. Unlike Sherry, however, the resulting wine isn’t fortified. It’s nutty, richly aromatic, and dry.