Les Matheny is the husband-and-wife team of Elise and Emeric Foléat, both lifelong Jurassiens. Emeric worked alongside Jacques Puffeney for 8 years; he continues Puffeney's legacy of working classical Jura varieties into unabashedly powerful wines, rather than the more usual wispy and pale wines of the region. Due to the nature of the winemaking (Jura’s typical long aging, working more philosophically than scientifically), the yields are tiny.
What importer Rosenthal Wine Merchant has to say about this wine...
Les Matheny’s Trousseau is a brooding, serious beast, bristling with energy and thickly textured. Its brash, iron-inflected nose erupts from the glass like a missile, with pitch-black, spice-drenched fruit battling for attention with the wine’s core of mineral-tinged leather and black pepper. Not for the faint of heart, this is a profoundly structured, ruggedly tannic wine that seems to demand cellar time, but—as with the atavistic, rough-hewn Bandol of Chateau Pradeaux—these are honest, proud tannins that are somehow charming despite their intensity.
Details
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Grape Variety
Trousseau
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Vintage
2021
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Size
750ml
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Farming Practice
Organic
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Style
Minerally
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Sweetness
Dry
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Body
Light Bodied