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Tony Bornard, Vin de Joli-Queur - Semi-Sweet wine - Jura is produced from Chardonnay grapes, following an ancestral method. After pressing, the juice is slowly heated in large copper caldron for 48 hours, thus reducing the juice and concentrating the natural sugars present in the grapes. Then Tony adds pure grape alcool (mutage) to stop / prevent fermentation. Then follows a very long elevage in used oak barrels, that gives this beautiful wine its nutty, complex character. As delicious as it is unusual.
DOMAINE TONY BORNARD, Pupillin – Organic, Natural
The original estate was created by Philippe Bornard who lives at the top of the village of Pupillin and farmed about seven hectares, which he inherited from his father. After years of selling grapes to the local cooperative, and with the urging of his good friend and Jurassic legend Pierre Overnoy, in 2005 Philippe made the move towards vinifying and bottling his own wines. He makes wines in same very natural vein: unfiltered, unfined and with no additives.
Since December 2017, Philippe Bornard has retired and it is his son Tony Bornard who is now in charge after having bought the family estate and merged into his own vineyard. Today the total area is 11.2 hectares. He continues to manage the vineyard in biodynamics, with minimum intervention to obtain natural wines that are often sulfur-free, while giving rise to experiments that sometimes stray from traditional codes. His very unique labels are created by Charlène Bornard, illustrator and textile designer.