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White Wine: 1774 | Vin Jaune | Jura

A bottle of Vin Jaune from Jura produced 15 years before the French Revolution. This is a true piece of liquid history.

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Producer: Vin Jaune

Vintage: 1774

Size: 620ml

ABV: 12%

Varietal: Savagnin

Country/Region: France, Jura

A bottle of Vin Jaune from Jura produced 15 years before the French Revolution. This is a true piece of liquid history.

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In February 2011 at the annual auction of old Jura wines at the Perce du Vin Jaune festival, a bottle of 1774 Arbois was sold for a massive and record-breaking 57,000 euros. I wrote about it in my Jura updates last year, and was commissioned for a long piece by the magazine World of Fine Wine. In their Then and Now section I wrote about the history of this bottle and its sale, plus about Vin Jaune today. I was really impatient to see the article published finally it has been and is in the current edition of World of Fine Wine. The research for this article was absolutely absorbing for me with people like producers Pierre Overnoy and Stphane Tissot, local historian Roger Gibey, and the purchaser of the bottle Pierre Chevrier being really generous with their time. At the Perce du Vin Jaune this February in Ruffey-sur-Seille the severe cold (at -18C the coldest on record!) drew many visitors to attend the auction, but it was certainly a more low key affair. Its still impressive though to see the array of bottles of 50 years old and more. The highest price paid for a bottle was for a Chteau-Chalon 1870 (reputed as an excellent vintage) and it went for a trifling 5,500 euros. The Perce next year will be in the village of Voiteur at the foot of the Chteau-Chalon hill, on the weekend of 2nd-3rd February 2013.