Pelican Arbois Savagnin Maceration Pelliculaire 2020

Since it was founded in 2012, Domaine du Pelican has rapidly become one of the most exciting estates in the Jura. 

It all started when Burgundy legend Guillaume D’Angerville took a break from making knockout Volnay to grab a glass of wine at le Taillevant. Per his custom, he asked the somm to serve him anything but Burgundy, blind. When he tasted the wine that was poured, he told the somm he must have made a mistake. This was definitively white Burgundy. Top-notch white Burg, in fact. 

Except it wasn’t. Turns out, the somm had poured a glass of Stephen Tissot’s Chardonnay Arbois Les Bruyères 2005. The marquis was so taken with the Jura Chardonnay that he set out to make his own — and Domaine du Pelican was born.

Maceration Pelliculaire is an extended skin contact Savagnin. It's saline and citrusy with notes of fall apples and plum. A great buy for anyone into experimental Jura wines or orange wine.