2022 Les Dolomies Arco Savagnin

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Les Dolomies |Jura |Savagnin
With only around 10,000 bottles produced annually, Les Dolomies' wines are highly sought after and cherished by Jura collectors worldwide. Only a few bottles available.

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This exceptional 2022 Les Dolomies Arco Savagnin comes from a 35-year-old vineyard in Nevy-sur-Seille, known for its stony marl soils and steep, rocky slopes. The vineyard is so challenging to work that Céline relies on her trusty donkey, Arco, to help during harvest, hence the name of the wine.

Winemaker Céline Gormally, along with her husband Steve, has been managing their vineyards without herbicides or pesticides since founding Les Dolomies in 2008. Their commitment to biodynamic principles and sustainable practices is evident in every bottle. Using compost as fertiliser and wild fermentation with minimal sulphur, Céline ensures her wines reflect the purest expression of their terroir.

The 2022 Arco Savagnin is vibrant and full of life, with a rapier-like acidity that cuts through flavours of quince, tangerine, and almond paste. The palate is intense and mineral-driven, finishing with a delightful saline kick.

With only around 10,000 bottles produced annually, Les Dolomies' wines are highly sought after and cherished by Jura collectors worldwide. Only a few bottles available.

96 points
"Savagnin is the hero. As it usually is. Whoa. Big perfume. Fino sherry, faint toffee apple, lemon curd, lime, green apple, aniseed. Huge flavour profile but also this levity and freshness, crisp tannins shaping things with chalky pucker, fine, electric tang of acidity, all super saline and bright. Almost an adult lemonade meets fino feel overall. It’s just stellar."
- Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

96 points - "Savagnin is the hero. As it usually is.

Whoa. Big perfume. Fino sherry, faint toffee apple, lemon curd, lime, green apple, aniseed. Huge flavour profile but also this levity and freshness, crisp tannins shaping things with chalky pucker, fine, electric tang of acidity, all super saline and bright. Almost an adult lemonade meets fino feel overall. It’s just stellar." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

Céline Gormally, who created her domain in 2008, lives by the saying from Saint Exupery “The earth is not ours; but lent to us by our children.” This rings true in all facets of how she manages her land. A woman with a spring in her step, she manages around 5ha of vines with the help of her husband Steve. The fields, as she calls them, are maintained without herbicides or pesticides. Using biodynamic principles and compost as fertilizer she eschews mechanised methods and distributes it all with donkeys between the vines. As former vice president and current member of ‘Le Nez Dans Le Vert’, she is committed to the organic lifestyle.

Les Dolomies takes its name from the magnesium limestone found in the area. The iridescent marls and limestone outcrops can be found extensively throughout the vineyards. They are one of the best geological soils for Jura grape varieties with their ability to disintegrate, allowing good penetration of the root network and make for an excellent water tank.

Celine is a fighter and has a real belief in the beauty of wines from this region. She was assisted by Earth Links (an organization helping organic farmers) to initially acquire the vineyards. After several years of work in the vineyard with the purest respect for nature, she gradually began to sell their wine and is now sought after by many countries around the world including top restaurants like Noma in Copenhagen. She believes in the strength of each of their plots, bottling separately which is not the norm in the Jura. This perseverance has allowed Céline to lease and develop new parcels of 55a Savagnin in Château-Chalon, and two other vineyards in Nervy and Passenans.

All wines use wild fermentation with very little sulphur, if any. Some whole bunch pressing for the whites and fully de-stemmed treatment for the reds. Whites sit on their fine lees in old Meursault barrels from Burgundy with a scattering of demi-muid, usually for the more delicate wines. Production is around only 10,000 bottles a year! - Importer Note

Price Bracket $101 and Above
Type White
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Savagnin
Country France
Region Jura
Feature High Score
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Critic Score 96
Size 750ml
Vintage 2022
Closure Cork

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