Vin de Voile Chardonnay Cuvee du Hasard 2015 Domaine Labet

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Robert Parker (94)

The 2015 Côtes du Jura Chardonnay Cuvée du Hasard comes from their Les Singuliers range of unusual wines that are not produced every vintage. This could be described as a mini Vin Jaune, dark golden, with a spicy nose and very tasty, salty, long and fresh, with notes of smoky peat, iodine, morels and a touch of curry. It's a Chardonnay from two plots of old vines (60+ years old) planted with a massal selection. It aged for over six years in "ancient" barrels, four of those under a veil of flor yeasts. They seem to do a barrel selection of the ones with better flor and bottled this cuvée, which is pungent and powerful, with 15.3% alcohol from concentration through evaporation, while keeping a very low pH (3.09) and some minor volatility that will lift up the wine. This 2015 was bottled in June 2022 after a very long élevage.