Jura
Chardonnay Les Survivants - 2021 - Domaine Ganevat
Jean-François Ganevat
A splendid bottle of wine, with a complex nose boasting notes of candied white fruits, honey, and hints of flowers... The palate is dense, with tension, precision, balance, beautiful volume, and a long finish.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Wine without added sulfites
- Designation
- Côtes du Jura AOP
- Bottled by
- Domaine Ganevat
- Colour
- White wine
- Degree of alcohol
- 13 %
- To drink from
- 2026 to 2031
- rock’n’roll
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Following the frost of the 2017 vintage, the entirety of the estate’s surviving Chardonnay was blended into this cuvée, meaning they come from different plots on different terroirs. The vines are farmed biodynamically and harvested by hand. Obviously, given the climatic conditions, the yields are very, very low. Natural vinification: direct pressing, four years of aging on the lees in demi-muid barrels that have seen several wines. Bottled at the estate without fining or filtration, without added sulfites.
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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