2007 Côtes du Jura, Les Vignes de Mon Père, Jean-François Ganevat
- White
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- Savagnin
Ready - at best
- Luis Gutiérrez
- 97-100/100
Product: 20078107260
Colour White
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2007
Maturity Ready - at best
Grape List Savagnin
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Domaine Jean-François Ganevat
Critics reviews
Luis Gutiérrez 97-100/100
I could also preview the 2007 Les Vignes de Mon Père, which might not be bottled one year from now, as the wine still felt very young and showed lots of citrus, with an incredible acidity and vivacity. I asked Jean-François Ganevat what his favourite vintages of Les Vignes de Mon Père were, and he told me that he especially liked 2003 and 2007, two completely different, almost opposite vintages, one very warm and ripe when the wine showed incredible power, and 2007 a cold and austere vintage, all about finesse and minerality, long and super tasty. Unfortunately, there is only one 500-liter foudre of this incredible elixir. I'm very reluctant to report on unfinished wines, and I always have doubts about the freshness of samples. I want to be especially cautious when I foresee a high score, but this certainly looked extremely good...Drink 2019 - 2030Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate (December 2017)
Drink 2019 - 2030
About this wine
Savagnin
Savagnin is a high-quality white-wine grape cultivated almost exclusively in the Jura in eastern France. It is cultivated to a limited extent throughout the Jura vineyards (usually on the poorest marls soils on west-facing slopes) and may be included in any of the region's white wine appellations. However it is most widely used but is usually in practice reserved for the Jura's extraordinary vin jaune. The Jura's most renowned wine undergoes a process similar to sherry, whereby a film of yeast covers the surface, thereby preventing oxidation but allowing evaporation and the subsequent concentration of the wine. The result is a "sherry-like" wine with a delicate, nutty richness.
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