Perfumed and intriguing Pinot with sweet raspberry and cherry aromatics, and a chiselled, taut palate. There’s a complexity of earthy, herbal flavours, and the kind of persistent, chalky structure that made us salivate. Fruit was whole bunch macerated and the wine was aged in barrel and amphora of varied sizes.

Tucked up between Burgundy and the Alps, Jura is one of those regions that the wine world gets very excited about, and Domaine des Marnes Blanches are at the peak of that excitement. Géraud and Pauline Fromont leapt into the consciousness of wine lovers when they started Domaine des Marnes Blanches in 2006. They have 4 vineyards totalling 12 hectares on limestone/clay and red marl soils where they grow Chardonnay, Savagnin, Poulsard, Pinot Noir and Trousseau using organic practices. As well as traditional oxidative wine styles, they have keenly followed a Burgundian approach of the separate vinification and bottling of specific sites to make ‘topped up’ wines.