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Jean Francois Ganevat Les Gryphees Vieilles Vignes 2015

Jean Francois Ganevat
$180.00

Grape: Chardonnay
Vintage: 2015
Type: White

This old-vine white wine is crafted from chardonnay grapes grown on limestone soils packed with fossilized gryphée oyster shells. Winemaker Jean-François Ganevat utilizes a low-intervention protocol, featuring a whole-cluster fermentation and complete malolactic conversion driven entirely by native wild yeasts. It ages on its fine fermentation lees inside large neutral wooden barrels to encourage texture without wood flavor dominance. It is bottled unfined and unfiltered, with sulfur added only sparingly at bottling.

It pour a bright straw color, releasing a nose of fresh citrus zest, green apple, and crushed oyster shell. The palate is medium-bodied and tightly wound, balancing a lean, chiseled structure with deep fruit volume. Clean flavors of fresh pear and grapefruit fold into a distinct vein of marine salinity across the mid-palate. A sharp beam of natural acidity cuts right through the texture, keeping the mouthfeel fresh. It finishes long, dry, and saline, leaving a persistent 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.