Jura
Chardonnay Grusse en Billat - 2018 - Jean François Ganevat - Magnum
Domaine Ganevat
A nose with notes of minerals, flint, grapefruit and quince... Palate: an intense, mineralesque wine with huge volume and a long, salty, dynamic finish.
- Size
- 150 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Côtes du Jura
- Degree of alcohol
- 13.5 %
- To drink from
- 2023 to 2030
- rock’n’roll
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A very select cuvée, like all the wines from Ganevat’s estate... 100% Chardonnay from vines farmed biodynamically and planted in 1960 on a terroir of schist and marl. Vinification is natural and without additives: direct pressing, four years of maturation in casks and in amphorae in a humid cellar, with topping up of the barrels (the wine is non-oxidative). Neither filtered nor fined, and zero added sulphur.

Jean François Ganevat
Jean-François Ganevat represents the 14th generation of vignerons of his family in Rotalier, in the south of Jura. After years working as the cellar master of Jean-Marc Morey in Chassagne-Montrachet, he took over his family’s estate in 1998. Ganevat converted the estate to organic viticulture the same year, and then to biodynamics in 2006. Jean-François practices single-parcel selection, that...
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