Tasting Recap! Wines of Jura

It's true that yeast is a part of every wine's genesis. But in France's Jura wine region, east of Burgundy, yeast plays an extra special part. Here, the white wines are often aged under a blanket of flower-like yeast (called voile, similar to flor) that forms a veil over the surface of the wine. This allows the wine to slowly oxidize and helps complex flavors and aromas develop. The white wines of Jura exist on a spectrum from heavily voile-induced to completely lacking voile. Let's try a few examples of these different styles! 

It's also interesting to consider that Louis Pasteur is from Jura. Would he have been interested in microbiology if he hadn't been so viscerally exposed to flor in Jura wine? We can wonder...

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Rolet Cremant du Jura
Sparkling Brut
**this was a crowd favorite!


Labet 'Hasard'
flor-influenced Chardonnay


Rolet l'Etoile
Chardonnay (no flor)


Vin Jaune
flor-influenced Savagnin


Rolet 'Old Vine' Poulsard