Cellier Saint Benoit Arbois Pupillin Côte de Feule Trousseau 2023

Côte de Feule is Pupillin’s most renowned vineyard, the village’s de facto grand cru. It lies in the heart of the appellation on a south-facing slope at 390 metres. The site was once a stone quarry, and Benjamin farms just 0.4 hectares of old-vine Ploussard rooted in steep, iris-coloured Triassic soils littered with limestone gravel. Alongside his Ploussard vines, Benjamin farms a 0.10-hectare parcel of Trousseau. Trousseau’s riper stems and more compact bunches than Ploussard allow Benjamin to ferment this entirely as whole bunches. This was raised in used 228-litre oak barrels for 12 months and bottled without filtration.