{"product_id":"maison-pierre-overnoy-chardonnay-2020","title":"Maison Pierre Overnoy - Chardonnay 2020 Arbois Pupillin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArbois Pupillin Chardonnay 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e is a natural wine crafted by \u003cstrong\u003eEmmanuel Houillon-Overnoy\u003c\/strong\u003e at \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pierre-overnoy\"\u003eMaison Pierre Overnoy\u003c\/a\u003e, in the village of Pupillin in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/jura\"\u003eJura\u003c\/a\u003e region of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/france\"\u003eFrance\u003c\/a\u003e. This white wine is made with \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/natural-wine-chardonnay\"\u003eChardonnay\u003c\/a\u003e grapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWe are not selling this bottle\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis page is here so you can read about the wine. We do not sell Houillon-Overnoy, out of principle. When we get hold of a few bottles we give them away rather than add to the speculation around them. Entry is free with any order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/pierre-overnoy-wine\"\u003eEnter the Houillon-Overnoy raffle here\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout Chardonnay 2020 by Maison Pierre Overnoy\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChardonnay here grows on grey marl with limestone scree lying over the top of it, which is the parcel type Pierre singles out for the grape. The domaine has two hectares of it, including older vines in the Les Viandris lieu-dit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis bottle carries \u003cstrong\u003ewhite wax\u003c\/strong\u003e, the domaine's mark for Chardonnay. Yellow is Savagnin, red is Ploussard. The vintage is on the small shield at the neck, which is just as well, because the label itself never names the grape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e2020, and what the heat did\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2020 is a vintage Emmanuel talks about directly when the subject turns to the climate. It gave genuinely high degrees, and yet the wines held their freshness and their drinkability, which he describes as brilliant and as a reason for some hope about what is coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is less reassuring about Chardonnay in general. Asked which grapes suffer most as it warms, he names Ploussard first and then Chardonnay, because dry years give difficult fermentations. Working with no added sulphur makes that a real problem rather than an academic one, and Pierre has said plainly that fully natural winemaking without SO2 is going to get harder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHow it is made\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo sulphur goes in, and neither does anything else, unbroken here since 1986. A 2012 Chardonnay from this cellar spent four years in foudre before it was bottled, which gives some idea of the patience involved. Total production across every wine is 20,000 to 25,000 bottles in a normal year, from six and a half hectares.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe have not tried this vintage, and we would rather say so than invent a note for a bottle we are giving away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe full story, and both of our films with Pierre and Manu, are on the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pierre-overnoy\"\u003eEmmanuel Houillon Overnoy collection page\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MORE Natural Wine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66035808207116,"sku":"MORE-5757-SKU","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0221\/6407\/8692\/files\/maison-pierre-overnoy-houillon-chardonnay-2020-arbois-pupillin.png?v=1792691025","url":"https:\/\/morenaturalwine.co.uk\/products\/maison-pierre-overnoy-chardonnay-2020","provider":"MORE Natural Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}