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Domaine de La Borde
Jura, France9 wines4.0 avg
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Julien Mareschal's Jura domaine in Pupillin - five hectares across Pupillin and Arbois, parcels on the Côte de Feule, and playful cuvée names across all five Jura varieties.
Julien Mareschal established Domaine de La Borde around 2003 in Pupillin, a village within the Arbois appellation in the Jura. He is part of the wave of young, natural-leaning vignerons who have reshaped how the region reads from outside over the past two decades, alongside neighbours Tony Bornard, Buronfosse, and Les Bottes Rouges.
Around five hectares in Pupillin and Arbois, including parcels on the Côte de Feule - Pupillin's south-facing hillside of blue and grey marl over Lias-era limestone. The same slope that made Pierre Overnoy famous. All five Jura varieties: Chardonnay, Savagnin, Trousseau, Pinot Noir, and Ploussard. Vines are mostly over thirty years old.
Organic and biodynamic farming, manual harvest, indigenous yeasts, no fining or filtration, minimal or zero sulphur. Mareschal moves fluidly between ouillé (topped-up, reductive) and sous voile (oxidative, under flor) aging depending on the cuvée and vintage.
The cuvées:
- Foudre à Canon - Trousseau, aged in foudre
- Terre du Lias - Chardonnay, named for the Liassic soils beneath the vines
- Plous'saperlipopette - Ploussard, from Pupillin (the name is classic Jura irreverence)
- Ploussard Côte de Feule - the famous hillside, old vines
- Pinostradamus - Pinot Noir
- Sous la Roche - Savagnin ouillé and Pinot Noir
- Vin Jaune - Savagnin sous voile, the Jura classic (minimum six years and three months in barrel under flor)
Mareschal works both registers of Jura - the traditional oxidative voice and a lighter, fresher idiom - often within the same cellar, depending on cuvée and vintage. The Côte de Feule Ploussard has become a reference point for what Pupillin's hillside can produce from old vines.
