CÔTES DU JURA CHARDONNAY 2023

This cuvee Grand Héritage offers a typical Chardonnay from the Jura delicately blending the elegance and the finesse of the grape combined with withe flowers and white fruits aromas, delicate woody notes, subtle oxidative notes and a beautiful structure in the mouth.

Drink with cheese gougers or tart, a poultry or river fish in cream sauce, delicatessen, fish and chips, crayfish and Swiss or local cheese such as Comté.

Serve slightly fresh between 12° and 14°C (53-57°F).

4 to 6 years.

The Jura wine region is small in size but large in its remarkable diversity. It covers 80 kilometres between Burgundy and Switzerland, in the eastern France. Created in 1937, the AOC (designation of origin) of Cotes du Jura is omnipresent in the north and south of the vineyard, on varied and contrasting terroirs. It is the second leading AOC in Jura in terms of production, and it engages all five of the Jura's grape varieties. The whole range of wines of the Jura is represented, although the whites dominate - still or sparkling - with wines that are round, fruity, and generous.

In order to develop a harmonious cuvée, our Côtes du Jura comes from a selection of our best plots.

The work in the vines, is based on the respect of the nature and the soil. For young vines, located on steep slopes, to avoid erosion, we cultivate a row out of two, practice soil reassembly to aerate the lands subjected to settlement due to moisture, and grass with plants. Such as clover, which, by competing on the vine, can modulate its mineral and water supply and control its vigor and yield.

The Guyot double size is necessary to better control its performance. The restructuring of the vines contributes to the harmony of our cuvée: the young vines bring the exuberance, the freshness and the acidity. While the older specimens bring the structure and character.

Reception of the grapes, vatting by gravity into a thermo-regulated tank for the fermentation. They are pressed, and musts are settling under control temperature. Then engages the fermentation maintained at low temperature (20- 22°C).

The Chardonnay was then aged in stainless steel tanks, for 8 months to aid the preservation of the wine's minerality and fruit and then blended with a part (around 9%) of Savagnin matured in oak barrel without topping up (the local winemaking technique called “sous voile”, under veil) to bring the typical Jura notes, “patina” style and structure.

Starting on August 28, in our large vineyard, the 2023 harvest was well anticipated, particularly for the Crémants du Jura with around 10 days of cutting which allowed to maintain good acidity and finally to obtain a magnificent harvest.

Our most qualitative plots this year were on white grape varieties: Chardonnay and Savagnin.

The reds remain on the tightrope and the choice of the harvest date was once again decisive, but here too, everything was well anticipated to offer a beautiful vintage for the reds as well!

No frost in 2023 and we would be very happy to keep this level of harvest every year as 2023 brings the volume well above a ten-year average with something reminiscent of the 2018 vintage, the benchmark vintage in the Jura regarding volumes.