Since we had tasted a Coenobium Rusticum previously, I decided to go with a wine from the Jura–the Montbourgeau 2008 L’Etoile Chardonnay ($20). This isn’t your mother’s chardonnay–this is an oxidative chardonnay that spends two years in barrel. “Will you wear a wool hat?,”

couple of years ago I came up with something that worked pretty well, the Crémant du Jura by Montbourgeau, a sparkling Chardonnay. Cookin' with Brooklynguy Jura Domaine de Montbourgeau Jacques PuffeneyCommon wisdom holds that it's very difficult to pair wine with asparagus. I'm not sure why this is so. I'm not ashamed, people.

Very excited to visit the Astor center today, and taste my favorite wines from 23 growers from the Jura! had met most of them on a trip in the Jura a few years back. Jura wine is unlike any wine you may have ever had. The white grapes are Chardonnay and the local white grape Savagnin. News jura stephane Tissot

Domaine Ganevat is in the Jura, in a town called Rotalier. They are just beginning to become a regular presence on the shelves of those retailers who care about Jura wine, and this is a testament to how good the wines really are - it's almost as if they are being kept a secret, and yet people are finding them. Levi Dalton Ganevat Jur

Edward Behr in his Art of Eating number 72, 2006 devoted to the Jura suggested that it was a version or strain of chardonnay. The way he wrote it led me to think that it was in fact chardonnay. There is of course plenty of "regular" chardonnay grown in the Jura, which he wrote about at length. Now leave me alone.

They Shouldn't do that in the Jura I was shopping at a large store in lower Manhattan, looking to buy a few bottles of Jacques Puffeney's 2007 Trousseau. The sales guy then says "They shouldn't do that in the Jura. Was he angry at the Jura and the lovely people who live there? That's a brand new thing they're doing in the Jura."

There is a big Jura wine tasting today in Manhattan, the second such event. When the buyer came over, the woman introduced the man (didn't hear his name) as a wine maker from the Jura. Wine maker Jean-Michel Petit, of Domaine de la Renardière, at the Jura tasting. Stars of the southwest in France, the Jura!" Again?"

Stephane Tissot from the Jura outside Les Caves Augé in Paris. Over to Tim for photos and comments from his tasting some wines from the Jura and Alsace. This cool day in March featured a tasting of wines from the Jura and Alsace. Tissot also makes some lovely examples of Chardonnay. By Timothy Eustis. Just not today.

assumed it was Savagin, but Sophie told us that it is Chardonnay in 2001. This was great with a Vacherin du Jura, the creamy cow's milk cheese that is wrapped in a band of spruce bark. Tags: Italy Huet biodynamics Damien Laureau Chateau Simone Provence Jura Domaine de Montbourgeau Sherry Savennières Equipo Navazos

Maybe 6 bottles for a holiday get together with dear friends -- whites from Loire (Huet is a very happy discovery) or Jura. We narrowed it to wines from the Jura: Savagnin vs. Chardonnay with a few Vin Jaune in there as well. The Burgundy requester snuck in another question. Alice- I'll like to stage a wine tasting.

That Cremant de jura? The Jura we talked about was the Dom. All chardonnay, extremely gorgeous, one hell of a bargain, and while I'm a slut for bubbles (organic & biodynamic mostly) from Champagne, this one takes no prisoners. Alice-for office gift for my staff about $25. de Montbourgeau Cremant.

Could afford the Jura, a wine region that looks like bone fragments, less than an hour away from Dijob. He had never even tasted Jura beforehand. Can you imagine tasting an oxidative wine for the first time after working with burgundy chardonnay and saying, what the hell, let's make that? Wanted land in Burgundy. Get that?

It wasn't even noon when I understood that I would be opening a Jura Chardonnay or Savagnin made in the under-the-veil style. can tell you this, though - if you like Jura wines you should try this one, and if you like Pinot Noir and don't know Jura wine, you should try this one. year old daughter in mind.

opened what is still my favorite under $20 sparkling wine, the NV Domaine de Montbourgeau Crémant du Jura , and it was delicious, a great pairing. Although I've heard talk about Savagnin in this wine, I think it is all Chardonnay. It is a soil-driven wine from a great producer in L'Étoile, one of the four Jura appellations.

One of the confusing and intriguing things about Jura wines is the distinction between technique and terroir. recently went to Vins du Jura , a tasting featuring 20 producers from the Jura region of France. It was a great opportunity to taste a lot of Jura wine and to think about and compare terroir and technique.

And why not a vin jaune from the Jura? Located about half way between Dijon and Geneva, the pocket-sized region of the Jura makes some of France’s most distinctive wines. Their Cotes de Jura Tradtion 2003 provides the oxidative wine character, but at a fraction of the price (about $22; find this wine ). Really.

give them a chardonnay by the glass, but I selected one from the Jura. give them a chardonnay by the glass, but I selected one from the Jura. home : wine recommendations : wine girl for hire : bio : articles : contact « Want to Chip in For Latour? Last spring they asked me to write their wine list. Asia flavors.

Being an extremely 'stylish,' cocktail oriented restaurant, I had to give them a chardonnay by the glass, so I went with one from the Jura. This is an advertisement. Last spring they asked me to write their wine list. was a little surprised. This was going to be a very trendy, three floor restaurant near Madison Park. Asia flavors.

was amused and wanted to have a giggle in order to avert my eyes from the growing stockpile of chardonnays on my bench. am more and more convinced that all chardonnay vines should be ripped out of California and replaced with trebbiano. Get a sparkler from the Jura. 1991 Cote de Rhone La Tache? havent flown Air France since.

The Puzelats grow Pinot Noir, Gamay, Côt (called Malbec in Argentina), Bréton (called Cabernet Franc in the film Sideways ), Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Gris (called Pinot Grigio in Italy), and the rarely seen Pineau D'Aunis and Menu Pineau (called Arbois in the Jura). They buzz with energy, some say "wildness." It works.

Montbourgeau Crémant du Jura is not, in fact, 100% Chardonnay, as I cannot be proven to have stated. It is mostly Meunier, there is some Pinot Noir too, and about 10% of the blend is Chardonnay. Just a few quick things while I get myself together and write a real post: Had the 2006 Château d'Oupia this weekend. Delicious wine!

NV Domaine de Montbourgeau Crémant du Jura , $18, Rosenthal Importers. There is a long lived vin jaune and three whites made in the " sous voile ," or under-the veil style, the oxidized style of whites that the Jura is famous for. Anyway.This sparkling wine is 100% Chardonnay and it's just delicious. Really a great one, too.

Chambers Street Wines held a Jura tasting in the beginning of March. My past includes exactly one Jura red ( 2002 Pierre Overnoy Arbois Pupillin - my notes say that I didn't like it) and a couple of Crémants - love 'em. You probably know this already, but there are a few particularly interesting things about Jura whites.

The more I drink sparkling wine, though, the more I learn about my palate, and these days I find that I'm preferential to sparklers from the Jura if I'm not drinking Champagne. Probably because I don't find Chenin Blanc to be as satisfying as Chardonnay or Pinot Noir when acting as the base for a sparkling wine.

NV Domaine Andr é et Mireille Tissot Cr é mant du Jura , $19 at Chambers Street Wines. This is the third Cr é mant du Jura I've had in the past two months and I am right now firmly of the mind that if I'm not going to drink Champagne, I want to drink Cr é mant du Jura. Really? What about Loire sparklers?

BrooklynLady went with the NV Chateau Bethanie Cremant du Jura , $9, a slightly gamy and very earthy blanc de blancs, with nice citrus and lots of chalkiness. had the NV Bereche Brut , $14, grower Champagne made of about 60% Pinot Noir and the rest Chardonnay, and a special pour that evening. It feels tucked away and private.

NV Domaine de Montbourgeau Cr é mant de Jura , (about $18, Prospect Wine Shop, moderate availability). Recommended to me by the always reliable Amy Louise Pommier at Prospect Wine Shop , it is 100% Chardonnay. And usually that means red wine. I'm certainly not here to argue, and I love exactly that pairing. Not to be, though.

2005 Jean Manciat Macon Vieille Vignes , price unknown (about $30) - old vine Chardonnay from the Maconnais, a Burgundian region known for value whites. 2005 Jean Manciat Macon Charnay Franclieu , $17 - Manicat's Chardonnay for younger drinking, fresh, vibrant, and delicious. All of the wines of Franc Peillot of the Jura.