2000 Arbois Vin de Paille, Jacques Puffeney (Half bottle)

The Jacques Puffeney Arbois Vin de Paille is a very rare, luscious sweet wine from Jura, made from dried Savagnin, Poulsard, and Chardonnay.

"Jacques Puffeney of Montigny-les-Arsures is among the Jura’s most prestigious, engaging, and (thanks to the rotund amplitude of both his torso and white-bearded visage) easily recognized vignerons, and crafts wines no less distinctive – if much less massive – than their author. With the exceptions of Pinot Noir, vin jaune, and his few sweet wines – all of which are matured in older barriques – Puffeney relies on ancient foudres, of which I have not seen such a collection as his outside of Alsace or Chateauneuf-du-Pape; and he is favorably inclined to long elevage even for non-oxidative lots, which can themselves thus come off as if influenced by flor or other living denizens of the cask."  The Wine Advocate, June 2012