Domaine André et Mireille Tissot

André and Mireille Tissot founded the domaine in 1962 in Montigny-lès-Arsures, a small wine commune just north of the town of Arbois that has long been the densest concentration of Arbois AOC vineyards. The estate was modest in its first decades, with vines spread across the calcareous marls and Trias clays of the Montigny slope and the village's surrounding parcels. The Tissot surname is common in the Jura, with several distinct domaines (Jacques Tissot, Jean-Louis Tissot, and others) operating under the same family name, but the André et Mireille line traces specifically to this Montigny base. The current generation has kept the founders' names on the label even as the working title shifted to Bénédicte et Stéphane Tissot.

• Founded 1962 by André and Mireille Tissot in Montigny-lès-Arsures, the densest commune in the Arbois AOC
• First decades focused on classical Arbois plantings across calcareous marls and Trias clay parcels around the village
• The Tissot surname is shared across several distinct Jura domaines; the André et Mireille line is the Montigny-lès-Arsures estate
• Founders' names retained on the label even as the working title became Bénédicte et Stéphane Tissot under the current generation

Stéphane Tissot returned to the family estate in 1989, his first vintage at the age of nineteen, and formally took the reins alongside his wife Bénédicte in 1990. The handover was the start of a long and steady transformation rather than a single break, with Stéphane gradually adding parcels, cuvées, and methods over more than three decades. Bénédicte runs the commercial side and the family business, while Stéphane drives the viticulture and cellar work. The estate that André and Mireille handed over was a classical Arbois producer with a small line of bottles. The estate today is one of the most ambitious in the region, with production split across more than two dozen parcellary cuvées vinified separately and bottled under their own labels.

• Stéphane joined in 1989 (first vintage at nineteen) and formally took over with Bénédicte in 1990
• Bénédicte runs the commercial and business side; Stéphane drives viticulture and cellar work
• Decades-long expansion rather than a single break, with parcels and cuvées added steadily across the 1990s and 2000s
• More than two dozen parcellary cuvées now bottled separately, a level of granularity unusual for the Jura

The estate today covers approximately fifty hectares, the bulk of it inside the Arbois AOC around Montigny-lès-Arsures and the surrounding communes, with additional holdings in the Côtes du Jura further south. The five Jura grape varieties are all planted: Chardonnay and Savagnin for the whites, Trousseau, Poulsard, and Pinot Noir for the reds. The Chardonnay holdings drive the parcellary work, with named lieux-dits each bottled separately: La Mailloche on east-facing clay-marl over limestone, isolated as its own bottling from 2000; Les Bruyères on Triassic clay; Les Graviers on alluvial gravels; the Clos de la Tour de Curon on Bajocian limestone scree, replanted by Stéphane in 2002 at 12,000 vines per hectare; and En Barberon, which sits in the Côtes du Jura and shows a more Burgundian profile from its Lias marls. Savagnin is split between ouillé (topped-up) and sous voile (oxidative) versions, and the Vin Jaune is unusually vinified by separate lieu-dit, with En Spois (a one-hectare Savagnin parcel south of Arbois planted in 1995) and Les Bruyères each bottled on their own.

• Approximately fifty hectares across the Arbois AOC (Montigny-lès-Arsures and surrounding communes) and the Côtes du Jura
• Five Jura varieties planted: Chardonnay and Savagnin for whites; Trousseau, Poulsard, and Pinot Noir for reds
• Single-vineyard Chardonnays from La Mailloche, Les Bruyères, Les Graviers, Clos de la Tour de Curon (Arbois), and En Barberon (Côtes du Jura)
• Vin Jaune vinified by separate lieu-dit (En Spois, Les Bruyères), an approach almost unique in the Jura

Stéphane converted the estate to organic farming in 1995 and earned organic certification in 1999, one of the earliest in the Jura. The Demeter biodynamic certification followed in 2004 and has been on the bottles ever since. The viticultural work is unusually intense: massale selection rather than nursery clones, planting densities that climb from 9,000 vines per hectare on classical parcels to 12,000 at the Clos de la Tour de Curon and as high as 27,000 on experimental plots, individually staked vines, and yields kept low enough to draw skeptical comments from older Jurassiens. In the cellar, the parcellary logic carries through: separate fermentations and élevages for each lieu-dit, centenarian foudres for some red blends like the Poulsard-Pinot-Trousseau cuvée DD, terracotta amphorae for selections of Trousseau, and Burgundy barrels for the single-vineyard Chardonnays, with extended ouillé or sous voile aging depending on the cuvée.

• Organic conversion 1995, certification 1999 (one of the earliest in the Jura), Demeter biodynamic certification since 2004
• Massale selection, individually staked vines, planting densities of 9,000 to 27,000 vines per hectare depending on parcel
• Cellar work mirrors the vineyard parcellary logic: separate fermentations and élevages by lieu-dit
• Vessels include centenarian foudres (the DD red blend), terracotta amphorae (Trousseau selections), and Burgundy barrels (single-vineyard Chardonnays)

Tissot occupies a distinctive position in modern Jura. The Pupillin natural-wine sphere, anchored by Pierre Overnoy and Emmanuel Houillon, is built on small-scale, sulfur-free production from a single sub-appellation. The Sud-Revermont biodynamic group around Jean-François Ganevat and Domaine Labet works the southern slopes of the Côtes du Jura. Tissot is the Arbois reference, and the scale and ambition are larger: a fifty-hectare estate with biodynamic certification, parcellary single-vineyard work that mirrors Burgundian climat logic, and a full traversal of the Jura's stylistic palette from sparkling Crémant through ouillé and oxidative whites, Vin Jaune, Vin de Paille, Macvin, and the indigenous reds. The estate has been a primary driver of the international rediscovery of Jura wine since the 2000s, and Stéphane Tissot's experimental edge (high planting densities, amphorae, parcellary Vin Jaune) has set a benchmark that other Arbois producers measure themselves against.

• The Arbois biodynamic reference, distinct from the Pupillin natural-wine sphere (Overnoy, Houillon) and the Sud-Revermont biodynamic group (Ganevat, Labet)
• Parcellary single-vineyard work applies a Burgundian climat logic to Jura Chardonnay and Savagnin
• Full traversal of the Jura stylistic palette: Crémant, ouillé and oxidative whites, Vin Jaune, Vin de Paille, Macvin, and indigenous reds
• Primary driver of the international rediscovery of Jura wine since the 2000s; Stéphane's experimental work (high densities, amphorae, parcellary Vin Jaune) sets the regional benchmark