Producer Tony Bornard

FRANCE, JURA

Tony Bornard is the son of Philippe, one of the most exciting natural winemakers in the Jura. Tony continues his father's work by being a purist, a rigorous supporter of the naturalness of the vineyard and its surroundings, a winemaker who wants to dig into the minerality of the vineyard, because that salinity of the soil will flavor the freshness of the wine, attenuating its acidulousness. He lives in Pupillin, a small French town of 265 inhabitants not far from Arbois and the Swiss border. Today he cultivates 11 hectares of thirty-year-old vines in an exclusively biodynamic way, which are found at high altitudes, on calcareous and clayey soils, divided into different plots which allow Tony to produce a vast range of wines with different specific characteristics, capable of satisfy all taste buds. All of its wines are produced with a long, slow maceration in fiberglass, then transferred to larger oak barrels for aging, which lasts about a year. The wines have two appellations: Côtes du Jura and Arbois-Pupillin, and reflect the Jura terroir beautifully. The acidity and mineral tension of the whites allow us to forget them in the cellar and find them in a few years even more sparkling. The reds are light, elegant and extraordinarily gastronomic.