Fleur de Savagnin

Fleur de Savagnin is Domaine de la Tournelle's ouillé Savagnin - made since 1994, putting Tournelle among the first Jura estates to bottle Savagnin in the fresh (topped-up, no-voile) style rather than the oxidative sous voile tradition. 100% Savagnin from grey Liassic marl. Hand-harvested at 35-40 hl/ha, strict sorting, whole-cluster pneumatic pressing, twelve-hour static settling without additions, indigenous yeasts. Alcoholic fermentation starts in tank, finishes in 228-litre old barrels; malolactic in barrel the following spring. Aged sous bois, no new oak, on fine lees, ouillé (topped up) roughly every ten days for a minimum of eighteen months. No SO2 added at any point. Bottling follows the Maria Thun lunar calendar. 12.5% ABV. 2004 was a more classically Jurassic, cooler year following the 2003 canicule.