Newsletter: 2022 Marie-Pierre Chevassou-Fasenet Pinot Noir

Newsletter: 2022 Marie-Pierre Chevassou-Fasenet Pinot Noir
I've been offering a plethora of wonderful Pinot Noir recently. Whether from Burgundy or elsewhere, these recent offers have been wines close to my heart, each showcasing what attracts me to wine so much: a profound and deep expression of place, people, culture and time. 

Amongst all this recent Pinot Noir greatness, today's version from the Jura is my most cherished. A glorious expression of the world's most beautiful grape variety, and easily the best sub $50 Pinot I've tasted over the last couple of years. A wine of striking purity and balance, where Pinot's haunting, mesmerizing aromatics shine by way of delicate red fruits and heady autumnal flavors. It's aged eschewing oak, a rarity for wine at this level but the results are breathtaking. This is a singular, unadulterated Pinot Noir in it's most elemental form.

Made single-handedly by one woman, in minuscule quantities. I feel incredibly grateful to have secured a handful of bottles on a visit to her domaine last year. 

Today, I'm proud to offer the only bottles of 2022 Marie-Pierre Chevassu-Fassenet, Pinot Noir in South Carolina.  
BUY NOW
100% Pinot Noir grown on Jura's classic marl mixture of clay and limestone. The hand harvested grapes are meticulously sorted and de-stemmed by hand. Then fermented with ambient yeast in stainless steel, where it ages for 9 months before being bottled un-fined and unfiltered. 

A sublimely aromatic and effusive wine, opening with late-harvest cherries, ripe raspberries, cinnamon, vanilla bean and a slight mushroomy note. The energetic palate is alive and boisterous, delivering crisp, juicy red berries, baking spices and sous bois earthiness in a silky smooth frame accented by saline minerality. This is Pinot perfection at its purest. 
The number of vigneronnes or women winegrowers in the Jura is small, but they are all strong characters who have built up great respect for their wines. Managing her 4.5ha of vineyards from vine to sales as many do here, the last thing Marie-Pierre Chevassu-Fassenet, a mother of three girls, has time for is to build a website, hence you may not have come across her or her estate’s wines. But both are well worth getting to know. - Wink Lork, Jura Wine
Marie-Pierre Chevassu-Fassenet was brought up with her three sisters on a bucolic Jura farm where she now makes wine. Her mother Marie came from a family of vignerons and her father Denis farmed mainly cows. 

After earning an oenology degree at Dijon, Marie-Pierre worked in New Zealand, Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Champagne before returning home to work as cellar manager at La Maison du Vigneron, the largest négociant in the Jura. She took over the family estate in 2008, and now makes some of the most elegant and exacting wines in the region. 
2022 Marie-Pierre Chevassu-Fassent, Côtes du Jura Pinot Noir - $49.99

*SPECIAL NEWSLETTER PRICE - $47.99

*SPECIAL 2-PACK PRICE - $44.99/btl

To order, reply directly to this email or call me at 843.576.4845
Justin Coleman
Proprietor  
Monarch Wine Merchants
Back to Newsletters