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Jean Francois Ganevat Cuvee Prestige 2008

Jean Francois Ganevat
$180.00

Grape: Savagnin
Vintage: 2008
Type: White

This traditional Jura white wine comes from savagnin vines planted in 1977 on clay and marl soils. Winemaker Jean-François Ganevat utilizes whole-cluster fermentation and a complete malolactic conversion driven entirely by native wild vineyard yeasts. The wine ages in a traditional oxidative style sous voile for forty-eight months inside neutral wooden vessels. Bypassing modern physical manipulation or synthetic corrections, a minimal dose of sulfur is added only during final bottling.

It displays a deep gold hue, releasing an intense nose of bruised apple, walnut shell, and dried orange peel. On the palate, a medium-bodied frame delivers a sharp, tangy mountain acidity that cuts directly through the volume. Savory flavors of toasted hazelnut and sourdough bread dough dominate the texturally rich mouthfeel. The extended oxidative aging provides a solid structural baseline across the mid-palate. It concludes with an bone-dry finish, leaving a lingering saline trace.

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.