Chardonnay Les Varrons Vieilles Vignes
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Les Varrons se présente avec une robe dorée pâle, brillante, légèrement voilée, typique d’un vin non filtré élevé sur lies. Le nez est précis, tendu, minéral, mêlant des arômes de citron jaune, pomme fraîche, amande crue et fleurs blanches, avec une note de pierre à fusil, craie humide, et une pointe subtilement réductive (fusain, silex). En bouche, le vin est droit, élancé, porté par une acidité tranchante mais mûre, une belle salinité et une matière fine mais persistante. Le vin s’étire longuement sur des notes d’agrumes, de beurre frais et de roche concassée, avec un grain pur, précis et une sensation de pureté minérale rare. Un chardonnay jurassien ouillé, structuré, profond, au potentiel de garde évident, mais déjà éclatant si ouvert à l’avance.
Terroir : éboulis calcaires et marnes grises.
Vinfication et élevage : les raisins sont récoltés manuellement à parfaite maturité. La vinification est naturelle, sans intrants ni soufre ajouté (ou à peine à la mise si besoin), avec fermentation spontanée. Le vin est ouillé, élevé en demi-muids anciens pendant environ 24 mois sur lies, sans bâtonnage, ni collage, ni filtration.
Accords mets/vin : carpaccio de Saint-Jacques, raviolis aux herbes, beaufort d’alpage.
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The Estate Jean-François Ganevat
Jean-François Ganevat, known as Fanfan, returned to his roots in 1998, to the Combe de Rotalier, after having been cellar master at the Domaine Morey in Chassagne Montrachet. Each year he makes around forty cuvées from parcel selections of 25 different grape varieties on 9 hectares of clay, schist and marl, with very old vines, 80 years old for the yellow one and a hundred years old for others.
He began by applying an organic practice which led him to a biodynamic culture in 2006 in order to achieve his objective of making wines as natural as possible, without sulphur, vinified with indigenous yeasts.
Concentrated, racy, of great purity, long, broad, salivating, there is no shortage of adjectives to describe the wines of Jean-François Ganevat, which regularly reach the top in whites for the Chardonnay and Savagnin varieties, whether or not they are oaked, such as Grandes Teppes, Chalasses Marnes Bleues or in reds with his famous Trousseau.
As proof, the cuvée "les chalasses vieilles vignes de 1902" vintage 2011 was elected wine of the year in 2014 by the very respected guide Bettane et Desseauve, no less!
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