Region: Jura | France

Grape: Chardonnay

Farming: Organic | Biodynamic

Method: Natural

Alc: 14.5%

*** Please note due to the rarity of this wine there is a limit of 1 bottle per client/order ***

About the wine. Before you hit limestone, where you find lots of fossils and seashells, there’s only 40 to 60cm of clay here. This together with old vines planted in 1947 gives a chiselled, beautifully balanced wine despite the notable power of 2018. Long ageing on fine lees helped taming the beast. It has many of the qualities you would expect in a top Puligny, deep layered texture with menthol hints that make you salivate. This is one of the Labet family’s finest terroirs.

About the makers  One of the most sought-after growers in the Jura region, Domaine Labet is located in Rotalier in the Sud-Revermont. In the late 1970s Alain Labet was probably the first vigneron in the Jura to make and bottle wines from individual terroirs separately. And in the 1990s when he started making topped-up whites, there were only one or two winemakers making wines this way elsewhere in the Jura (Pierre Overnoy in Arbois being foremost). Nowadays we have his three children, Julien, Charline and Romain, instilling their own vision and even more precision and terroir definition into their wines.