Dme Jean Luc Mouillard Cotes du Jura 'Le Curieux' · 750 ml

Jean-Luc Mouillard grew up in the Jura, where his family focused on dairy cattle, and sold the grapes they farmed to the local co-op. As soon as Mouillard finished school, however, he headed off to study winemaking. He came back home to Jura after a year’s experience in Beaune and established his own domaine in 1991. In a slow, thoughtful way, he’s built up the estate over the years to an 11-ha (27-acre) estate with 16th-century cellars and a modern winery. It’s very much a small family affair – he works with his wife, Annie, and his son, Mathieu.

This wine offers a cornucopia of flavours: chamomile flowers, talc, bergamot, quinine bitters, brine. The fruit had a green-peaches crunch, but it came with a shimmer of sweet-lime-sherbet acidity.

ABV: 13%