2020 Domaine Ratte Arbois Clos Maire, Jura, France (Pinot Noir - Trousseau) Etienne et Claude Courtois barrels or large wooden vats

barrels or large wooden vats (foudres)

One of the first to help define a category of natural wine that showed raw

Grapes are hand-harvested and immediately pressed as whole bunches

Maceration on the skins varies from a few days to a week

Grapes are manually harvested from biodynamically farmed young (20-year-old) vineyards

2020 Domaine Ratte Arbois Clos Maire, Jura, France (Pinot Noir - Trousseau) Etienne et Claude Courtois barrels or large wooden vatsBiodynmiac. The grapes are harvested together and come from an 80 year old parcel characterized by a particular terroir where the soil is formed scree limestone and red marl. Harvested by entirely by hand, destemmed, fermentation is natural and occurs very slowly