Domaine des Marnes Blanches Cotes du Jura Chardonnay Les Molates 2023 Wine Bar | Featured White and daughter Ivana have continued

and daughter Ivana have continued to make the wine the way it has always been made: roughly three months on the skins

Benjamin Laroche — working outside his family's much larger operation — ferments this mostly in stainless steel with a portion in old barrels

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The schist and clay-limestone terroir of the rolling hills imparts a mineral backbone to ripe red fruit and sweet spice aromatics

Whether you’re gifting Extra Brut to a certified Champagne geek

Domaine des Marnes Blanches Cotes du Jura Chardonnay Les Molates 2023 Wine Bar | Featured White and daughter Ivana have continuedIf the Jura is on your radar at all, Pauline and Graud Fromont's Marnes Blanches belongs near the top of the list a couple who founded their domaine in 2006 fresh out of winemaking school, farming organically with minimal intervention in the cellar. Les Molates is their ouill (topped up, non oxidative) Chardonnay, drawn from parcels around Gevingey on the region's namesake white marl and limestone, aged about ten months in barrel. This is the clean,