Les Bottes Rouges tôt ou tard 2023
- Region
- France » Jura » Côtes du Jura AOC
- Type
- red still, dry
- Producer
- Vintage
- 2023
- Grapes
- Ploussard
- Alcohol
- 11
- Volume
- 750 mL
- Cellar
- not available
Ratings
Fermented tomatoes, blood, and Nordic berries with warming spices dancing around. Lovely acidity but lacks the body to back it up - though that's expected from the variety, isn't it? There's something about overripe berries here, that edge between fruit and decay. The wine feels too young, caught in adolescence. And yet, it's ridiculously drinkable. The kind of contradiction that makes you pour another glass while wondering why. Pleasant confusion.
About Producer
Meet Jean-Baptiste Menigoz, a former teacher in Arbois working with special needs children. At some point, he became fixated on low-intervention wines and decided to devote all his free time away from school to work in the vines. Under the tutelage of Stéphane Tissot, Jean-Baptiste learned the ins and outs of the wine world. In 2012 committed fully to trading his classroom for his vineyards.
Being a music lover, Jean-Baptiste named Domaine after a French song (The Red Boots). Musical references continue to pop up in the names of his cuvées. For example, Tôt ou Tard (Sooner or later) is the name of an independent French record label.
Now meet Florien Kleine Snuverink, a former owner of the famed Café Schiller in Amsterdam (Netherlands). She moved to Jura to learn winemaking. Initially, Florien planned to purchase some vines for herself but ultimately decided to join Jean-Baptiste.
So this is Domaine Les Bottes Rouges and two friends that started with different careers in different countries but decided to take the life-changing decision to work full-time as winemakers.
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