Region: Jura | France

Grape: Chardonnay | Savagnin

Farming: Organic | Biodynamic

Method: Natural

Alc: 14.5%

*** Please note due to the rarity of this wine there is a limit of 1 bottle per client/order **

About the wine  This wine comes from three tiny parcels in marl with a Lias blue clay base, on a south-facing slope. The most recent plantation was in 2006, together with 0.18 ha planted in 1985 and 0.05 ha in 1950. This is quintessential Jura chardonnay, given 20 months of élevage in fûts with 7mg/l of total sulphur. It is quite structured in this vintage and will age well, with an intensity to the fruit that gives energy on the attack, good depth of citrus fruits on the mid-palate and both lift and length on the finish.

Located close to the limestone cliff that forms the eastern edge of the region, the soil in the Sud-Revermont is quite different from the north around Arbois, as it’s rich in Bajocian limestone eroded from the cliff, imparting the wines with a mineral bite and acidic backbone that sets them apart.

About the makers  One of the most sought-after growers in the Jura region, Domaine Labet is located in Rotalier in the Sud-Revermont. In the late 1970s Alain Labet was probably the first vigneron in the Jura to make and bottle wines from individual terroirs separately. And in the 1990s when he started making topped-up whites, there were only one or two winemakers making wines this way elsewhere in the Jura (Pierre Overnoy in Arbois being foremost). Nowadays we have his three children, Julien, Charline and Romain, instilling their own vision and even more precision and terroir definition into their wines.