Exclusive: Marie-Pierre Chevassou-Fassenet Pinot Noir 2023

Exclusive: Marie-Pierre Chevassou-Fassenet Pinot Noir 2023
I've offered a plethora of wonderful Pinot Noir over the years. Whether from Burgundy or elsewhere, these wines were close to my heart, each showcased what attracts me to this grape so much: a profound and deep expression of place and time. 

Amongst all these great Pinot Noir, today's version from the Jura is the purest, most genuine I have ever experienced. It's a distillation of Pinot's best attributes, a premier example of the world's most beautiful grape.

A wine of striking elegance and balance, where Pinot's haunting, mesmerizing aromatics shine by way of luminous red fruits and delicate spice. Aged eschewing oak, a rarity for wine of this caliber, but the results are breathtaking. This is a singular, unadulterated Pinot Noir in it's most elemental form.

Grown, harvested and vinified single-handedly in minuscule quantities by one of the Jura's top female winemakers, this easily the best sub $60 Pinot I've tasted over the last few years. I feel incredibly lucky to have secured a handful of bottles.

Today, I'm proud to offer the only bottles of 2023 Marie-Pierre Chevassu-Fassenet, Pinot Noir in South Carolina.  
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100% Pinot Noir grown on Jura's classic marl mixture of clay and limestone. The hand harvested grapes are meticulously sorted and de-stemmed by hand. Then fermented with ambient yeast in stainless steel, where it ages for 9 months before being bottled un-fined and unfiltered. 

A sublimely aromatic and effusive wine, bursting with ripe cherries, crushed raspberries, cinnamon, vanilla bean and subtle black tea notes. The energetic palate is alive and boisterous, delivering crisp, juicy red fruit, baking spices and sous bois earthiness in a silky smooth frame, accented by saline minerality and refreshing acidity. Pure beauty in a bottle, this is Pinot perfection.
The number of vigneronnes or women winegrowers in the Jura is small, but they are all strong characters who have built up great respect for their wines. Managing her 4.5ha of vineyards from vine to sales as many do here, the last thing Marie-Pierre Chevassu-Fassenet, a mother of three girls, has time for is to build a website, hence you may not have come across her or her estate’s wines. But both are well worth getting to know. - Wink Lork, Jura Wine
Marie-Pierre Chevassu-Fassenet was brought up with her three sisters on a bucolic Jura farm where she now makes wine. Her mother Marie came from a family of vignerons and her father Denis farmed mainly cows. 

After earning an oenology degree at Dijon, Marie-Pierre worked in New Zealand, Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Champagne before returning home to work as cellar manager at La Maison du Vigneron, the largest négociant in the Jura. She took over the family estate in 2008, and now makes some of the most elegant and exacting wines in the region. 
2023 Marie-Pierre Chevassu-Fassent, Côtes du Jura Pinot Noir - $59.99
 
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Justin Coleman
Proprietor
Monarch Wine Merchants
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