CHÂTEAU D'ARLAY Vin Blanc Tradition Côtes du Jura AOC 2012

Tasting note: A dry and full-bodied wine, with a bouquet of slight dry sherry-like style; taste of nuts, macerated fruit, overriped apples, fennel.

Gastronomy: Canapés, meals cooked or grilled with cheese (Comté), river fish with strongly flavoured sauces, poultry or white meat in cream with mushrooms (morels), asparagus with sauce "mousseline", Asian food, cheeses.

Serving temperature: 12 – 14°C   [ cellar temperature ]

Storage: This wine develops over 10 to 20 years, gradually deepening in its taste of honey and dried fruit.

Winemaking: After picking up the 2 grapes, the 2 fresh musts are blended in a vat, to be co-fermented. Then the wine is kept for at least 3 years in big old barrels, with topping up, to give it the special "goût de terroir" by a slow oxidation.