Jacques Puffeney, one of the old timers from Jura, officially retired after the 2014 harvest (but it seems like he still produced some wine in 2015, which I will inform you about when I find out). But as happens with many French vignerons, he has kept a small plot of vines that he continues working even after his retirement, and he has carried on producing very small amounts of wine. When I visited him in 2015, he told me that he decided to keep a small plot of Trousseau, the red grape for which his village, Montigny les Arsures, is world famous. I was at a very good brasserie in Arbois (Aux-Docks, highly recommended) and was thrilled to see the 2016 Arbois Trousseau les Berangeres on their wine list and couldn't resist ordering it. This was his best plot of Trousseau, from which he made a single-vineyard bottling (and now Domaine du Pelican is also bottling it separately), and this 2016, a fresh and elegant year, was everything I was hoping for and more. Puffeney and Aviet, both from Montigny, have produced some of the most exciting Trousseau in the appellation, and this bottle shows it. The wine is elegant and has depth, while it is easy to drink and is great with food. It has some fine tannins and great acidity—and the balance to develop in bottle for a good decade or two. I don't really know about the availability of this wine, but retired vine growers can produce and sell small amounts of wines without losing their pension (as you have seen with Henri Jayer and Marcel Juge), so the wine is out there somewhere, at least in some of Jura's local restaurants.
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