Chardonnay 2020 Arbois Pupillin

Maison Pierre Overnoy
Grapes: Chardonnay
Country: France
Regions:Jura
Wine Type:White
Vintage: 2020
Bottle Size: 750ml
Alcohol: 12.5%
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Arbois Pupillin Chardonnay 2020 is a natural wine crafted by Emmanuel Houillon-Overnoy at Maison Pierre Overnoy, in the village of Pupillin in the Jura region of France. This white wine is made with Chardonnay grapes.

We are not selling this bottle

This 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.

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About Chardonnay 2020 by Maison Pierre Overnoy

Chardonnay 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.

This bottle carries white wax, 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.

2020, and what the heat did

2020 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.

He 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.

How it is made

No 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.

We have not tried this vintage, and we would rather say so than invent a note for a bottle we are giving away.

The full story, and both of our films with Pierre and Manu, are on the Emmanuel Houillon Overnoy collection page.

We ship every Wednesday. Order by Tuesday 10am.

Maison Pierre Overnoy - Overnoy-Houillon Chardonnay 2020 Arbois Pupillin, white wax
Maison Pierre Overnoy - Chardonnay 2020 Arbois Pupillin
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Old Overnoy-Houillon bottles binned on their sides in the cellar at Pupillin

MAISON PIERRE OVERNOY (HOUILLON-OVERNOY)

Six and a half hectares at Pupillin, a village of 248 people above Arbois. Pierre Overnoy took the estate on in 1968 and handed it to Emmanuel Houillon-Overnoy, his adoptive son, in 2001. One parcel, the vigne des filleuls, was planted by Pierre's brothers in 1949. Two hectares each of Ploussard, Savagnin and Chardonnay, plus 30 ares of Trousseau put in during 2013, sitting on the grey, blue and red marls that the growers here name by colour and the geologists refuse to.

No sulphur has gone into these wines since 1986. The whites get a very long elevage, four years in foudre for one Chardonnay, eight years in barrel for a Savagnin, and then longer again in bottle, which costs the cellar real volume to evaporation. A normal year gives 20,000 to 25,000 bottles for the entire world, and frost in 2017, 2019 and 2021 cut that hard. The label never names the grape, so read the wax: red is Ploussard, yellow Savagnin, white Chardonnay.

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