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Jean Francois Ganevat Cuvee Florin 2012

Jean Francois Ganevat
$180.00

Grape: Chardonnay
Vintage: 2012
Type: White

This Jura white wine is a pure varietal bottling of chardonnay produced by natural winemaking icon Jean-François Ganevat. The fruit hails from a single parcel of vines planted in 1996 on pure limestone soils in Rotalier. Vinification utilizes whole-cluster fermentation driven by native wild yeasts, followed by a complete malolactic conversion. It matures for three years on its fine lees in large neutral wooden barrels, with a minimal sulfur addition handled only at bottling.

It pours a bright straw-yellow color, releasing clean aromas of green apple, fresh pear, and a chiseled limestone minerality. On the palate, the medium-bodied frame balances a slightly textured mouthfeel with a sharp beam of natural acidity. Clean flavors of citrus oil and white stone fruit wrap around a core of fine lees richness. The neutral wood aging provides a subtle structural frame that guides the fluid texture smoothly. It finishes long, bone-dry, and mouthwateringly clean.

Jean-François Ganevat also known as Fanfan has achieved a cult like following and brought incredible might to the Jura through his wines. Without doubt a reference point for the Jura and also for contemporary French winemaking.

His winemaking epitomizes all that we are looking for. Biodynamic vineyard work, low intervention wine making, a detail-oriented approach with a touch of magic. Not too mention working with up to 40 different varieties and crafting as many as 35 cuvees.

His sister Anne joined him and they have a strong and wonderful negociant business with grapes sourced from all over France.

Jean-François Ganevat is a master of his craft, grounded in a detail oriented perfectionism on one hand while being an explorer of the eclectic creating wines that are otherworldly.

At the heart of it all, in the charming hamlet of La Combe de Rotalier. With only eight and a half hectares under vine, the family has seventeen different local varieties planted of both red and white grapes—an incredible amount of variation to consider for holdings of such small size.

History

The Ganevat family has been farming vines here since 1650, although the family supplemented their grape-growing with a dairy that produced milk destined for the local cheese, Comté, until 1976.

After working both for his father and for Jean-Marc Morey in Chassagne-Montrachet, he returned to the Jura in 1998 to take over the family domaine.