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JURA NOUVELLES
DE BOISSET
1ST SEMESTER
2025
A wealth of grape varieties
Jura’s largest estate grows a range of varietals that makes
it one of the most concentrated vineyards in France!
© Serge Chapuis
The Tertiary Period may have separated it from its Burgundian With every planting campaign, the viniculturist Jacques
neighbour, but the two wine regions still have much in Hauller performs a review to enable each variety to flourish
common, not least as exceptional terroirs for Chardonnay on the land that suits it the best and preserve this diversity.
and Pinot Noir, which have been around for equally as long A plot of Chardonnay Rose was thus replanted in Arbois
on both banks of the Saône. from a mass selection of old Château-Chalon vines before
Even so, the Jura has retained its identity thanks to its native they were ripped up, preserving this historic plant heritage.
grape varieties of Savagnin (behind the region’s typical
oxidative white wines), delicate Poulsard and rare Trousseau.
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