Noir Frères - Domaine de la Petite Marne
Noir Frères - Domaine de la Petite Marne
【Singular wines that mirror the terroirs of the Jura】
Noir Frères traces its beginnings to 1973, when Jean Noir, then running a dairy farm at Poligny, planted his first vines.
Parcels were added little by little, and in 2003 his sons Philippe and Jean-Yves changed course: they ended their arrangement with the Poligny cooperative, the Caveau des Jacobins, and began making and selling their own wine.
Convinced that the quality of a wine is bound directly to its terroir, they have always treated the choice of where to plant as the decisive criterion.
Parcels facing south and south-west give the hillsides the fullest possible sunshine right through the year.
Those favourable conditions let each variety reveal the character that is its own.
The soils of these plots are blue, grey and white marl, ideal for white wines such as Savagnin and Chardonnay.
The parcels planted with Pinot Noir, Poulsard and Trousseau, meanwhile, lie on red clay.
From these soils, and through a range of blends, the brothers give voice to the terroirs of the Jura as a whole.
Shaped each year by the weather and by the state of the vines, the wines are never quite like any that came before.
To draw every last flavour from the terroir, they now farm eleven hectares in and around Poligny.
