Domaine Labet Cotes du Jura Chardonnay Bajocien 2022 012626OFFER careful sorting

careful sorting

producers can now name villages and vineyards on the label — standard practice nearly everywhere else

2-hectare south-facing parcel surrounded by ancient stone walls

in the Côteaux Sud d’Épernay

Classic left-bank Graves character

Domaine Labet Cotes du Jura Chardonnay Bajocien 2022 012626OFFER careful sortingDomaine Labet farms ancient vines in the southern Jura, and this is their welcome mat Chardonnay. Bajocien refers to the limestone bedrock under the Les Varros plateau, a rare Burgundian style soil in this region that the family compares to the ground around Chambertin. The fruit comes off four old plots planted between 1949 and 1986, then ages nearly two years in barrel in the topped up (ouille) style, meaning fresh and precise rather than nutty and