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Jean Francois Ganevat Les Grands Teppes Vieilles Vignes 2015

Jean Francois Ganevat
$180.00

Grape: Chardonnay
Vintage: 2015
Type: White

This white wine is sourced from old chardonnay vines planted in 1920 on white marl soils within the Les Grands Teppes vineyard. Jean-François Ganevat coordinates a hands-off cellar methodology, allowing a spontaneous whole-cluster fermentation and complete malolactic conversion with native vineyard yeasts. The wine undergoes a lengthy three-year aging process on its fine lees in large neutral wooden casks. Bypassing modern adjustments or heavy filtering, sulfur is added only sparingly at bottling.

It pour a deep gold-straw color, opening with complex aromas of yellow orchard fruit, preserved lemon, and wet limestone. On the palate, the medium-bodied frame is concentrated and deeply physical, showcasing a waxy texture balanced by a sharp beam of mineral acidity. Savory flavors of raw hazelnut and fresh pear seamlessly wrap around a dense mouthfeel. The old-vine depth keeps the center focused and lively throughout. It concludes with an bone-dry finish, leaving a long 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.