Domaine Ganevat

Fanfan to his friends, Jean-François Ganevat has made his family estate into one of Jura’s most recognizable. The 13-hectare estate in the hamlet of La Combe, in Rotalier, one of Jura’s southernmost wine villages, continues as it always has, but after some hiatus, with a somewhat different ownership structure.
Jean-François is overall consultant, his sister Anne runs the administration, and an experienced team manages winemaking and meticulously farm the biodynamic vineyards, which include several ancient vineyard plots and some rare, local grape varieties.
The négociant wines are sold under the name ‘Anne et Jean-François Ganevat’. For these, grapes are purchased both from Jura and from other regions.
Initially inspired by Burgundian winemaking, Jean-François evolved his style to focus on parcel selections and long ageing in oak of various sizes, concrete eggs or amphorae. Yet, he still makes sought-after Vin Jaune and even Chardonnay aged under the veil. Conversely, one of his earliest experiments, ageing Savagnin for a decade or more in barrels fully topped-up, led to one of his most famous and sought-after wines, Les Vignes de Mon Père. The quality of his reds overturned perceptions that this was a quality white-only area.
There can be 30-50 cuvées of estate wines in a good-volume year usually bottled with zero-added sulfites and released late. These are great wines of energy, life and usually precision, expressing the varied soils, grape varieties and maturation methods supremely well.