Maison Pierre Overnay Houillon Arbois Pupillin Chardonnay 2011
The 2011 Emmanuel Houillon Pierre Overnoy Arbois Pupillin Chardonnay is a Jura vin jaune crafted by Maison Pierre Overnoy and Emmanuel Houillon within the Arbois appellation. The Wine Advocate awards it 92-94/100 and recommends drinking it between 2015 and 2021. The publication describes a straight and highly mineral Chardonnay, driven by lively acidity, with nuances of nuts, spices, earthy notes, balsamic touches, lemon, and wild herbs.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Yellow
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Jura
- Appellation
- Arbois
- Producteur / Domaine
- Maison Pierre Overnoy et Emmanuel Houillon
- Millésime
- 2011
Maison Pierre Overnoy et Emmanuel Houillon
Located in Pupillin, Maison Pierre Overnoy farms 6.6 hectares dedicated mainly to Chardonnay, Savagnin, Poulsard — locally called ploussard — and Trousseau. Emmanuel Houillon manages the estate and winemaking in continuity with the work initiated by Pierre Overnoy, while Anne Houillon oversees sales in particular. The wines are distinguished by patient ageing and a particularly low-intervention cellar approach.
- Owner
- Emmanuel et Anne Houillon
- Maître de chais
- Emmanuel Houillon
- Surface (ha)
- 6.60 ha
Histoire du domaine
In 1968, Pierre Overnoy took over the 2.65 hectares of vines from the family mixed-farming estate run by his father in Pupillin. From the beginning, he worked without synthetic herbicides or pesticides and progressively sought to break away from conventional oenological practices, under the influence notably of Jules Chauvet, Jacques Néauport and his own observations; this journey led him to abandon sulfur in winemaking in the mid-1980s. Emmanuel Houillon arrived as an apprentice in the autumn of 1990, then became an employee after his training in viticulture and oenology. He personally took charge of a third of a hectare of Chardonnay in 1995, planted an additional half-hectare in 1998, and in the same year supported the expansion of the estate through the takeover of 2.5 hectares of Poulsard and Savagnin belonging to Pierre's sister. In 2001, Pierre Overnoy retired and handed over management to Emmanuel Houillon, who officially became his adopted son; Emmanuel and his wife Anne then fully took the reins of the maison. Thirty ares of Trousseau were planted in 2013. In 2025, Emmanuel Houillon stated that he was maintaining the estate at 6.60 hectares; his son Baptiste had also joined the estate after apprenticeships at Ruppert-Leroy in Champagne and Thierry Allemand in Cornas.
