Orange was the color of her dress 2021 - Domaine Hughes Beguet

Orange was the color of her dress  - Domaine Hughes Beguet

Orange was the color of her drees is a Savagnin-based orange wine from the Jura region of France. It takes its name from the song by Charles Mingus "Orange was the color of her drees". Patrice uses different types of wine in her cave, and this is no exception. Grapes from two parcels are used: "Champ Fort" (white and blue marls) in Mesnay, and "Côte de Feule" in Pupillin (red and gray marls). The grapes ferment in contact with the skins on which they remain for 8 months. Refines for 9 months in steel (75%) and exhausted barriques (25%). After assembly, it remains in contact with the skins for a couple of weeks before bottling. Orange was the color of her drees is yellow to orange. The nose reveals notes of yellow berry fruit, white flowers, ginger, orange peel with notes of honey and aromatic herbs. In the mouth it is charming, slender and fluid, excellent freshness and incredible drinkability. Pleasant final closure played on sweet / bitter tones Only 2000 bottles produced.

Service

We taste it at a temperature around 10/12 ° C in tulip goblets. Wine to be drunk immediately but left in the cellar for a few years can give great emotions.

Pairings

Orange was the color of her drees is excellent with cooked fish and shellfish, seasoned cheeses, to try with a turbot with saffron.

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..