2020 Domaine Montbourgeau L'Etoile 'Cuvée Spéciale', Jura, France Jade Gross The barrels for the blend

The barrels for the blend are made by the former private barrel maker for Smith Haut Lafitte - who coopers tight grain French oak into barrels for this wine as he would for his former employer

Mash bill (historic): 72% corn / 13% Rye / 15% malted barley

”—Danny Meyer

The wines from this site often rival the quality of those from its more famous neighbor

For the first thirty odd years of her life Ikeno-san was a journalist and one of the most respected interviewers in Japanese magazines

2020 Domaine Montbourgeau L'Etoile 'Cuvée Spéciale', Jura, France Jade Gross The barrels for the blendThis elite cuve of Chardonnay is Madame Deriauxs special selection from her best Chardonnay plantings. Like the pure Savagnin cuve, it is left to age for many months (in this instance usually 48 to 60 months) in barrel without racking and without topping off. It is a wine for the ages with a vibrant acidity underlying a dense and concentrated body with notes of beeswax and honey and resin and minerals.