Jean-Francois Ganevat, Les Vignes de mon Pere, Cotes du Jura

Initially started fairly waxy and reticent. Didn’t have my hopes up. But a hour in the wine kicks off its slippers and showed us it was DTF. The salinity on this wine is incredible. Usually salinity to be has a bite but in this case texture wise its akin to a high sodium content water - it has a salty thick profile. Then an exotic citrus note that goes beyond the standard lemon medley with a gentle acidity. Wow what …

Very shy at first, especially on the nose. With air this gorgeous curry powder note takes over the nose. Palate is extremely fresh and youthful, with great intensity.

Ganevat Mon Pere Vertical (Chambers) : Soft, but not quite as soft and dainty as the 02. Loomi, nuts, saline a touch of beeswax. Very approachable, but with a relatively short finish. Accessible, but with a short finish. ABV: 13% Closure: natural cork Stem: Korin white stem Decant: N/A; poped and poured and tasted over the course of ~5h Extra info: from vines of Savagnin Vert planted in 1930, on the blue marl of the Chalasses site. Aged for 130 …

A Spring Saturday in DC : What a cool wine. Color of dried honey with some spritz in the glass. Smells like my wetsuit after surfing in winter on the East Coast, with sea brine and jetty rocks and seashells all thrown together, and I love it. The acid rips across the palate, and the lemon seed and green melon notes are strong and complex, backed up by mineral, white tea and all sorts of green herbs and pickling spices. …

Hanging Out w/ Burgundy & Jura (Weygandt Wines & Ripple) : One of the best Jura blancs I've come across to date. Isaac described the salinity well, and what got me was the combination of the cool saline profile with some wonderfully mellow and deep floral notes. Touches of nuts, beeswax, and lemon were there too. The palate was an absolute freak show. Wonderfully smokey, nutty, and zippy citrus elements were woven together very nicely, but it had this 2nd …

One of those largely indescribable but deeply memorable wines, this vieux savagnin ouillé seemed very alpine in spirit. It began a little shrill but settled down after an hour or so in the decanter. Beeswax, rancio, resin on the nose and palate, becoming oilier in texture with time. A food wine.

JURA NIGHT (ENOTECA ROSSORUBINO TORINO) : WOOOOOOW!!! I read it was good, but surely did not thin it was soooo f***ing good!! It's a non-oxidative savagnin, aged 9-11 in barrels. Seductive shy nose, no acidity, no oak, everything in the right place, so gentle and balanced. On the palate it's a masterpiece, mid-bodied, rounded with complex aromas of light butter and white flowers and a lingering sexy finish! Perhaps the best Jura non-oxidative white I ever had. Mind-blowing Dio mio …