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It is bottled with zero dosage, no added sugar whatsoever, which is where the Brut Zero name comes from and why it finishes bone dry. No oak touches it. Expect a fine, persistent bead, green apple, lemon pith, white flowers, and a chalky, bready lees character, with a rounded texture that owes nothing to sweetness. 12.5% alcohol. Dry, saline, and unadorned, this is still the Chardonnay of L'Étoile, just with bubbles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMontbourgeau has grown wine in L'Étoile since Victor Gros planted the vineyards in 1920. His son Jean expanded the estate after taking charge in 1956, and Jean's daughter, Nicole Deriaux, joined in 1986 and now runs the domaine, with her three sons waiting in the wings. The property is nine hectares, mostly Chardonnay, with just under two hectares of Savagnin and small plantings of the local Trousseau and Poulsard. 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Bajocian limestone is the same Middle Jurassic rock that builds the best slopes of the Côte de Nuits; the two regions were laid down in the same shallow sea and later separated by the rift valley the Saône now runs through. Montigny-lès-Arsures is better known as the capital of Trousseau, which makes a serious Pinot Noir parcel here slightly unexpected. This is the estate's home vineyard in the most literal sense, since the cellar is built into its slope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePinot Noir in the Jura usually disappears into a blend. Domaine du Pélican's own Trois Cépages is 60 percent Pinot Noir, 35 percent Trousseau, and 5 percent Poulsard, and for the estate's first six years that is where the Pinot went. A varietal bottling did not appear until 2018, and the delay was deliberate: the team was not confident it could handle Pinot Noir outside Burgundy and waited until it was. The wine ages in a combination of Burgundy barrels, 60 percent, and vats, 40 percent, with no new oak anywhere. Sour cherry, cranberry, wild raspberry, dried violet, and a wet-limestone bite, with fine-grained tannin and acidity that runs high even by Pinot standards. 2024 was a punishing year in the Jura, with April frost, a soaking spring and summer, and relentless downy mildew that cut yields dramatically.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDay-to-day work here belongs to François Duvivier, who came over from the d'Angerville cellars in Volnay to run the Jura estate and has spent more than a decade adapting Burgundian training to Jurassic ground. Farming is biodynamic in practice rather than in slogan: low-dose treatments timed to the lunar calendar, soils opened with a plow instead of herbicide, and any plot that gets pulled out sown with green manure for three years before it is replanted. 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The distinction matters: the marl in Burgundy is white, while the Jura's runs grey and blue, and the two regions' limestones formed at the same moment before an ancient rift valley split them apart along the Saône. Grand Curoulet faces north on a hillside above the town of Arbois and the plain beyond, exposed and windy, and it ripens later than anything else the estate farms. Cold winters, a short season, and marl that stays wet: this is Savagnin's home ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOuillé is the whole point of this bottle. Most people meet Savagnin as vin jaune, aged a minimum of six years and three months in a barrel deliberately left unfilled so a veil of yeast forms across the surface, giving the nutty, curry-spiced, oxidative character the Jura is famous for. Ouillé means the opposite: the barrels are topped up throughout aging, no veil ever forms, and the grape arrives fresh and direct. 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In 2012 he leased Château de Chavanes in Montigny-lès-Arsures, gaining five hectares of biodynamically farmed vines replanted a decade earlier, and added another five that had never seen chemicals. In 2014, when Jacques Puffeney announced his retirement, d'Angerville took over four hectares of his holdings. That sequence is why this domaine had a serious Arbois vineyard portfolio almost immediately.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComté, ideally 18 months or older, is the reflexive Jura pairing and it works because the wine's salinity meets the cheese's crystalline crunch head-on. Chicken thighs braised with cream, mushrooms, and a splash of the wine itself get a lift from the acidity that a richer white would not provide. Grilled trout with almonds and brown butter is the freshwater version of the same idea. 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This wine comes from the opposite end of the region: La Combe de Rotalier, a small valley on the southern slopes of the Côtes du Jura just below Lons-le-Saunier, where the Ganevat family has worked vines since 1650. Les Chalasses is a named lieu-dit here, planted on grey Jurassic marl, a dense clay-and-limestone sediment that holds water through dry summers and gives up its yields grudgingly. The climate is sharply continental, with cold winters, a short growing season, and the Bresse plain falling away to the west. Geologically this is the same story as the Côte d'Or, one range over, which is why Burgundian grapes sit here beside the local ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoulsard, spelled Ploussard around Pupillin, is the palest red grape in France. The skins are thin and low in pigment, and a poured glass reads as dark rosé rather than red wine, which throws almost everyone the first time. The color has nothing to do with the intensity: cranberry, wild strawberry, dried rose, blood orange peel, black tea, and the damp forest-floor character old-vine Jura reds develop. The palate is light and nearly tannin-free, held up by sharp acidity, finishing dry and faintly saline. Serve it at 55 degrees. The 2022 season ran hot and dry across the Jura, with hail in late May and early June and a harvest that began around August 22, among the earliest on record. Poulsard swings from underripe to overripe in days, so picking dates decided this wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ganevats farmed La Combe de Rotalier alongside a dairy, sending milk to the local Comté makers, until 1976. Jean-François worked for his father, then left for Domaine Jean-Marc Morey in Chassagne-Montrachet, and returned to the Jura in 1998 to take over the family estate. His sister Anne joined him, and the domaine now carries both their names. They farm roughly eight and a half hectares planted to seventeen local varieties, and from that small base Jean-François produces between thirty-five and forty cuvées a year, each given its own individual élevage. The vineyards are farmed biodynamically, and Kermit Lynch, one of his American importers, describes him as obsessed with using as little sulfur as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChill it and treat it as a wine that belongs on a summer table. Roast chicken with lemon and tarragon works because the acidity handles the pan juices without fighting the herbs. A plate of saucisson sec, cornichons, and aged Comté is the local answer, and the Comté is a nod to where this family's money used to come from. Grilled trout or seared salmon with brown butter suits it, since there is no tannin to clash with fish. A mushroom and thyme tart picks up the forest-floor character directly. This is the bottle you open when it is 90 degrees outside and you still want red wine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Natural","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51016043692255,"sku":null,"price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0439\/7436\/1248\/files\/P8090078.jpg?v=1786310850"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0439\/7436\/1248\/collections\/image_47689525-55b9-489b-bfb3-5f0b3c2694c0.png?v=1682095699","url":"https:\/\/danverwinemerchant.com\/collections\/jura.oembed","provider":"Denver Wine Merchant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}