2024 Jean-Francois Ganevat Pinot Noir Julien en Billat L'Enfant Terrible du Sud

Ganevat needs no introduction at this point. But this cuvée is a different side of the man. Named after his grandfather Julien, it's a négociant wine rather than an estate bottling, sourced from purchased Pinot Noir fruit grown on 1977-planted clay and limestone soils in the southern Côtes du Jura.

"L'enfant terrible du Sud" is an apt description of what's in the bottle. Where Ganevat's estate wines are structured, serious, and built for the cellar, this is lighter, more playful, and meant to be enjoyed sooner. Indigenous yeasts, minimal intervention, fruit infusion over extraction. At just 11.5% alcohol, it barely whispers.

Fresh morello cherry and raspberry, dried flowers, delicate spice. Supple and silky on the palate with real freshness driving it. This is Jura Pinot at its most approachable, made by someone who could make it more complicated but chose not to.

A lovely, honest wine. Very much in the spirit of its namesake.