face b

2017

4.3

Region

France › Jura › Côtes du Jura AOC

Type

white · still

Grapes

Savagnin

Alcohol

13%

Volume

750 mL

Sugar

1 g/L

Tasting Notes(4)

Boris11 December 2025· Lo Kyiv

4.3

Fantastic. Baked apples and apple blossom on the nose - orchard in autumn and spring simultaneously. Nuts, salt, a touch of volatile lift that stays in the aftertaste rather than dominating. Excellent acidity, mineral spine, cotton candy sweetness that never cloys. Structured and serious, but completely drinkable.

Boris8 July 2024· Lo Kyiv

About

Produced from a 100% Savagnin, this wine is made using the "ouillé" method. This denotes a different technique to that of the other regional speciality, Vin Jaune, as the barrels are "topped up" during maturation to minimise oxidative ageing and preserve the freshness of the wine.

More from Les Bottes Rouges

View all →

Wonderful wine. It has become even better over the last year---deep, multilayered, complex, and charming. Notes of pineapple, apple cookies, honey, tea with lemon, sea breeze, and bruised apple. Fresh and salty palate with a long and delicious aftertaste. A bit pitched---just like when you sing in the shower.

I was struggling to decide what to open after such a tiring day. Thanks to my notes, listless me figured - a wine 'I would love to drink on a daily basis' must be a safe choice. The outcome is miserable. Face B is by far the best thing that happened to me today. Well. Les Wampas, a basket of cheese and XC2 TtGC also contributed to my happiness.

Being true to the ouillé method, Face B fills me up with clean tension and contemporary bliss. Again and again. It's never enough despite the persistent aftertaste. I am charmed by a can of pineapple, shitty 'chemical' apple cookies from Silpo, tilia honey, lemon and sea breeze. I am charmed by the round, fresh and multilayered palate. It is flavourful, sophisticated and yet so approachable and quaffable. It has a slightly reductive, off-key and a bit pitched character. I would love to drink it on a daily basis.

This is the wine I would love to drink on a daily basis. It's quaffable, sophisticated yet approachable, open and delicious. Stone fruits, canned pineapple, tilia honey, apple cookies, lemon candy (or was the lemon baked?). Fresh, medium-bodied, well-structured and balanced with flavours of baked apples, lemon candy and honey. The aftertaste? Very long with a persistent touch of pineapple. Neat stuff.