Arbois Pupillin Côte de Feule 2018 - Domaine Hughes Beguet

Arbois Pupillin Côte de Feule - Domaine Hughes Beguet

Côte de Feule is one of the most important vineyards for the Poulsard in Pupillin. The plot of Patrice is divided into two parts: the upper part is made up of blue and gray marls, while the lower one is made up of blue and red marls. 50% of the grapes are vinified in whole bunch while the other 50% is de-stemmed. Refine partly in steel and partly in wood. Pepper, chocolate and spices on the nose. Structured, material sip. Pleasant tannic texture.

Service

We taste it at a temperature around 16/1/° C in tulip goblets. Wine to be drunk immediately but left in the cellar for a few years can give great emotions.

Pairings

It goes well with meat preparations. Excellent with smoked swordfish carpaccio.

Winery: Domaine Hughes Beguet

The Hughes Beguet winery is located a Mesnay, a small village adjacent to Arbois in the remote Planches-près-Arbois. He was born in 2009, when Patrice Béguet, winemaker, renounced the city life of Paris and returned to the United Kingdom with his wife, Caroline Hughes. They purchased 4.5 hectares of vineyards in the Arbois appellation at over 300 meters above sea level, including one of the most coveted slopes of Arbois, Les Corvées. Patrice works his vineyards in a biodynamic way, and among the vineyards of Savagnin and Ploussard he has sown wild flowers, legumes and cereal plants. So believing in this lifestyle that his vin de paille is wrapped in biodynamic straw, and an ancient breed of alpine sheep graze on native grasses among vines in winter. In the cellar the wines are fermented only with indigenous yeasts present on the grapes, they contain a very low dose of sulfur; but it is by going up into the "cave" that one can experiment to have all unique wines, and refinements among old steel vessels of aged oak..