Antide 2015
£120.00
A Wine That's
as salty as white wine gets. Think Himalayan rock salt—in a wine—but so much more than that. This exemplifies why Savagnin is one of the greatest white grapes in the world; a wine that's so good, it's simply impossible to score it.
This bottle is a super rare find that we would like to share with many of you. We are therefore limiting the purchase to ONE BOTTLE ONLY per customer please, thank you for your understanding!
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- Winemaker: Jean-Francois Ganevat
France
Jura
14%
White
75cl
8-12°C
Biodynamic
Lias
Trias
Schist
Marl
Savagnin
Where and How?
This is biodynamically farmed Savagnin from several plots of different terrors (Lias and schist).
Pressed directly and fermented naturally, after which is ages for 30 months on its lees, and bottled unfined and unfiltered, without sulphites.
The Winemaker: Jean-Francois Ganevat
Jean-Francois farms 13 hectares of vines in the Jura, which create his domaine wines. These vineyards are tended biodynamically, including the use of natural plant-based products such as orange oil to decrease the use of copper used in the vineyards. He also makes négoce wine with organic grapes he buys from friends across France - here in the Jura frost means that in some years he loses most of his production. In the cellar, the wines are made with a hands-off approach; the key ingredients simply being whole bunches for the reds, and time for the whites, which are aged for at least two years. There is one philosophy that stands about the rest;
“It’s simple. I have always wanted to make wines that I want to drink.”
The cellar is a patchwork of different vessels; everything from old Burgundy barrels, to amphorae of all shapes and sizes and large, to old Austrian foudres. He ages the wines in the vessels that he feels suits them. The wines are almost always bottled without sulphur, but if Jean-François feels that a cuvée needs it, he'll add a "homeopathic dose." This is a method that consists of adding a micro-dose of sulphur (sometimes undetectable) but that is believed to have the same effect on the wine.