Tissot
Arbois Stéphane Tissot owns 46 hectares of vines and is a biodynamic producer with a very large range of ‘small batch-single site’ wines. He is infectiously passionate and enthusiastic, intense, intelligent and also charismatic. Tissot is a talented and individualistic producer with 4 separate and distinct sites; savagnin and the reds are always planted on clay for increased acidity. Chardonnay is planted on both clay and limestone, and is fermented with wild yeast and made in a very reductive way with all of the yeast lees. All vineyards are strictly biodynamic and the yields are intentionally kept very low.
The estate features exceptional terroirs like Les Bruyères, La Mailloche, En Barberon and Curon. As an attempt to achieve the maximum expression of those terroirs, their 35 hectares of vineyards are cultivated in bio-dynamic viticulture (certified by Demeter) to allow the soils to live, to have grapes untouched by chemical products, to allow natural yeast fermentations, to reduce the doses of sulfur in the cellar. This quest for aromatic diversity has lead Tissot to produce 28 different cuvées, often terroir by terroir, with lots of innovations which take into account the incredible diversity of the vineyards of the Jura.
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