Fumey-Chatelain Arbois Pinot Noir Aux Melinaux 2022 CS20230804 and does a two-day whole-cluster

and does a two-day whole-cluster cold soak that pulls a delicate pink hue and just enough phenolic grip out of the skins

the wine ages in French oak before bottling unfined and unfiltered

This is one of the few areas in Jalisco that mingles plantings of citrus trees in their agave farms providing a very unique terroir

fermented in open-top tanks and aged in American oak

and Mondeuse

Fumey-Chatelain Arbois Pinot Noir Aux Melinaux 2022 CS20230804 and does a two-day whole-clusterBurgundy is barely an hour west, and the Jura has been growing Pinot Noir for about as long as anyone can remember it's just that nobody outside France thinks to look here for it. Aux Melinaux comes from a single Arbois parcel planted in 2002, on clay studded with fossilized oyster shells. Marin Fumey works it the gentle way: whole clusters, a slow three week infusion, a year in barrel, very little poking and prodding. The result is silky and savory,