Savagnin
£65.50
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2015 L'Etoile, Vin Jaune, Domaine de Montbourgeau, Jura
White
2015
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Full Bodied
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14.5% Alcohol
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£503.00
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(75cl)
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2007 Côtes du Jura, Vignes de Mon Père, Domaine Jean Francois Ganevat, Jura
White
2007
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Medium Bodied
Dry
12.0% Alcohol
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2012 Vin Jaune, Château Chalon, Domaine Tissot, Jura
White
2012
Drink, at peak
Medium Bodied
Dry
14.5% Alcohol
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2006 Côtes du Jura, Les Vignes de Mon Père, Domaine Jean-François Ganevat
White
2006
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Medium Bodied
Dry
12.5% Alcohol
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1958 Château-Chalon, Vin Jaune, Jean Bourdy, Jura
White
1958
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Full Bodied
Dry
13.5% Alcohol
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2008 Côtes du Jura, Les Vignes de Mon Père, Domaine Jean-François Ganevat
White
2008
Drink, at peak
Medium Bodied
Dry
12.0% Alcohol
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Savagnin is a high-quality white-wine grape cultivated almost exclusively in the Jura in eastern France. It is cultivated to a limited extent throughout the Jura vineyards (usually on the poorest marls soils on west-facing slopes) and may be included in any of the region's white wine appellations.
However it is most widely used but is usually in practice reserved for the Jura's extraordinary vin jaune. The Jura's most renowned wine undergoes a process similar to sherry, whereby a film of yeast covers the surface, thereby preventing oxidation but allowing evaporation and the subsequent concentration of the wine. The result is a "sherry-like" wine with a delicate, nutty richness.
Renowned ampelographer Pierre Galet maintains that Savagnin is identical to the Traminer which was once grown widely in Germany, Alsace, Hungary, and Austria, and that Gewürztraminer is the pink-berried musqué mutation of Savagnin.