Michel Gahier Arbois Trousseau La Vigne de Mademoiselle D 2022 (1.5 L)

Country: France

Region: Jura

Type: Red Wine

Grape: Trousseau

The Gahier family has been in the Jura region since 1525. The family domaine is 6.5 hectares with the vineyards concentrated in the village of Montigny-les-Arsures, the place recognized as the home of Trousseau. Michel Gahier's skills and sensibility that produce undeniably outstanding wines that clearly express the very particular terroir of this part of the Jura.

Gahier harvests and vinifies his wines parcel by parcel. Each wine comes exclusively from a single vineyard site. The farming is organic and and the yields are quite low. The reds are destemmed and there is a period of cold maceration. The wines, both white and red, are aged in old foudres and barrel, and Michel vinifies, ages, and bottles his wines without filtration or any additions whatsoever—no yeast, no sulfur, no nothing. The reds are mineral-driven, with compelling freshness and length. 

Michel recently acquired this half-hectare parcel of 45- and 80-year-old Trousseau adjacent to the component vineyard of “La Vigne du Louis,” naming the wine after the parcel’s former owner Isabelle Dole. More structure and concentration than Michel’s other Trousseaus, with well-integrated black fruit and tannins. This wine will only get better with time.