Maxime Crotet Jura Chardonnay VdF 2022

Maxime Crotet Jura Chardonnay VdF 2022Fruit from Poligny in the Jura. Steely and fresh with mouth watering, zappy lime notes and mineral complexity. Maxime Crotet learned about organic farming from natural winemakers like Fred Cossard and recently started his own label based in Beaune and sourcing fruit from Burgundy and the Jura. Jonathan Kemp

He went from getting heckled for making 'French' wines in California to being an elder statesman of the new-wave California movement of the past decade

it has serious balance and great layers of crunchy texture

Franc de Pied is an experimental plot of ungrafted Cabernet Franc vines (most vines are grafted onto American rootstock to prevent phylloxera) in the same sandy Galichets vineyard featured in this month's Direct Press in a version from the Breton's neighbors Domaine de la Chevalerie

The wine ferments in neutral wood

what normally would take two hours took ten

Medium-bodied and moderately fruity

fruit forward

and aged 22 months before bottling

Vines from 3 parcels of centenarian vines in the La Coruja area

Brian & Jill O’Donnell

Nevado was bottled En Rama and will gain in complexity with bottle age

the Senats declare this wine ‘a perfect companion for a nice day