TROUSSEAU BRUYÈRES ROSIÈRE 2022 - Cuvée des Géologues (Lucien AVIET & fils)

DESCRIPTION

The TROUSSEAU BRUYÈRES ROSIÈRE cuvée is a single varietal wine made from a blend of two plots : Bruyères and Rosière.
The Bruyères parcel represents about 2/3 of the blend, and Rosière the remaining third.

WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING

The grapes from the Bruyères and Rosière plots are harvested manually, totally destemmed and vinified together.

The alcoholic fermentation starts spontaneously under the native yeasts action, the skins cap is submerged every day, in order to extract both color and tannins.

The skins maceration lasts 21 days, the must is then aged in barrels for one year. The wine is not fined, just filtered before bottling.

TERROIR

The TROUSSEAU BRUYÈRES ROSIÈRE wine is a blend of grapes from two plots:

• Les Bruyères that faces south in a natural amphitheatre of the village of Arbois. The soil is made up of schistose marl from the Triassic period, dating from the Rhetian period, a stage of the upper Keuper, and whose sedimentation took place between 252 and 201 million years ago: at that time, the Jura region consisted of vast, shallow and calm lagoons.
  
  This substratum is covered on the surface by a thick layer of run-off silt, very beneficial to the vines roots that can easily penetrate the rock and benefit from a water resource that is essential to overcome the summer droughts.
  
  
• Rosière ,located on the Coteau des Rosières, a place that offers a very favorable soil for the Trousseau development.
  Its bedrock is made up of a marl series called iridescent marls of Keuper, whose deposit took place in the Triassic, between -240 and -201 my, in shallow, over-salted lagoon, isolated by shoals. Its friable and therefore easily erodible nature makes this series rarely visible in outcrop.