Wine from Jura

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: I love the lively and energetic profile of the 2014 L'Etoile Cuvée Spéciale, which is a sharper wine than the 2015 but also less developed and fresher. It feels very young and undeveloped, with bright acidity, strong...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 91 points: (91+) The whites tend to spend one winter in topped up foudres and a second one in barriques that are not refilled. The current 2014 L'Etoile is the basic white produced exclusively with Chardonnay and is from a cooler...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 97 points: The 2010 L'Etoile Vin Jaune is a super elegant version of the Savagnin aged under a veil of yeasts for no less than six full years and whatever remains of the year when the grapes were harvested. It has a great nose...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: A new Savagnin bottling, the very young 2017 L'Etoile Savagnin Ouillé Les Budes fermented and aged in 500-liter topped-up barrels, a style that has never been produced at Montbourgeau before. This wine was produced by the...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: 2015 was a riper and more powerful vintage, and the 2015 L'Etoile Savagnin was produced with grapes from two plots on marl soils and fermented in stainless steel. It ages in barrels that are initially full but are left...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: A 50/50 field blend of Savagnin and Chardonnay, the 2015 L'Etoile En Banode comes from a plot that names the wine, a vineyard planted in 1970. The two varieties are picked and fermented together, as they want to focus on...