Domaine Ganevat

Jean-François represents the 14th generation of winemakers in the Rotalier family in the south of the Jura. The man was cellar master at Jean-Marc Morey in Chassagne-Montrachet before taking over the family business in 1998. The vineyard was converted to organic farming in the same year and to biodynamic farming in 2006. Ganevat produces powerful, mineral and incredibly energetic wines that make the precise work in the vineyard almost palpable. The grapes are harvested when ripe and, depending on the vintage, sometimes with a higher alcohol content - yet finesse, freshness and compact structure are always retained. We know of only a few wineries that produce such great and captivating white wines that are just as convincing when young as they are after decades in the bottle.

Ganevat can generally be divided into three lines. The wines with the two-part labels are the monumental Domaine wines, which come exclusively from the estate's own vineyards with the oldest vines. As frost and hail regularly cause extreme harvest losses in the Jura, Anne and Jean-Francois Ganevat have been producing a Negoce line with one-piece, yellow labels with the same vineyard motif for several years now, the grapes for which come from leased plots and grapes bought in from neighbouring winegrowers in the Jura. The labels with drawings characterise wines from grapes purchased from other regions such as Beaujolais, Burgundy or Alsace.