2019 Domaine Joly Savagnin "sur l'Addos" Côtes du Jura

95 Points, Kasia Sobiesiak (The Wine Front) -"What can I say. This is like catnip to me. I’m probably very biased (trying with all the cells of my body not to be) in loving the wines under flor so much. But then, at the dawn of AI universalised, monotone, no emotion-evoking wine notes, why not have a favourite, one that moves you? (without inflating the score scale). Got a bit emotional here, forgive me… Open to interpretation. I think, in this case and by this stage, if you know you love sous-voile Jura, there’s no need for thinking twice here. You get all the goods from this Savagnin aged for almost four years in old oak barrels. It has THE perfume. Pungent—yes, delicious—abso-f-lutely. The wonderful marriage of peanut brittle, bitterness, salt, spiced rum, truffles, pink grapefruit, yellow apples and quince is matched with bone dry, aniseed-induced palate that smoothly drives the minerally flavour for a very long time and to ones delight."

From a superb very low yielding Jura vintage, this is a stunning release from Cedric at Joly. Even more mineral & longer than the lovely 2018 edition.

The flagship white from Joly - almost 4 years under flor but so fresh, energetic, saline & stony. 

A nose of sea spray & fino.  The palate id full walnut & other grilled nuts, a hint of dried fig.  There's lemon pith & some orange blossom. It's so saline & teeming with wet stone notes.  It's perhaps more of a winter white but so versatile with food, the phenolics here will work with many proteins.