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Jean Francois Ganevat Sous La Roche 2014

Jean Francois Ganevat
$180.00

Grape: Savagnin
Vintage: 2014
Type: White

This Jura white wine is a selection of savagnin grapes grown on the limestone, gravel, and marl soils of Rotalier. Winemaker Jean-François Ganevat coordinates a low-intervention approach, featuring a whole-cluster fermentation and complete malolactic conversion with native wild vineyard yeasts. The wine is aged for forty-eight months inside neutral wooden demi-muids to allow the structural components to integrate naturally. Bypassing modern chemical alterations, a minimal dose of sulfur is handled only during bottling.

It pour a deep straw color, opening with clean aromas of preserved lemon, green plum, and mountain herbs. A medium-bodied frame balances orchard fruit flavors with a sharp, racy line of mineral acidity. The extended wood contact contributes a savory waxy texture that rounds out the mid-palate cleanly without heavy oak volume. Subtle notes of dried herbs and wet rock develop nicely as the wine sits. It finishes completely dry, leaving a clean, persistent 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.