Trousseau le Garde-corps

Le Garde-corps is the structured, cellar-bound Trousseau in Tony Bornard's range - the name is a pun on vin de garde, a wine "taillé pour une belle et grande garde" - where le Ginglet is the Trousseau for early drinking. The fruit comes from La Bidode in Pupillin, planted in 1988 on variegated marls with gravel. Vinification follows the house zero-addition line: spontaneous fermentation in neutral tanks with about a month on skins and daily punch-downs and pump-overs, then elevage in old barrels and tank before bottling unfiltered, with no added sulphur, and a long rest at the domaine before release. 2019 was a tiny Jura crop - two spring frosts cut Arbois yields roughly in half, then a hot summer - and it shows in the 13.8% and the darker, spicier, firmer-tannined side of Trousseau, built for 5-10 years.