Wine Details
Firstly, this is not rosé. This is Savagnin Rose, a rare mutation of Jura’s great white grape, and one of the most quietly thrilling bottles in the Château de l’Étoile allocation. Almost gone. Barely seen. Still protected in L’Étoile, one of the last places holding onto it.
And then you smell it.
Louis describes it as exotic, almost passionfruit-like, and he is not wrong. There is wild citrus, bright tropical fruit, a little floral lift, and that clean Jura snap underneath it all. Nothing oxidative. Nothing heavy. Just this extraordinary grape, bright, naked and completely alive.
It does not taste like a curiosity. It tastes like a secret that somehow made it into bottle.
The Plot
The vines are 60 to 70 years old, rooted in clay, silt and limestone, giving a wine that feels both delicate and wildly expressive. Only around 300 bottles were made for the world, making this one of the smallest and most fascinating cuvées in Louis Fourrier’s first Château de l’Étoile vintage.
Technical
Louis keeps the winemaking deliberately simple here. The wine is fermented and aged in stainless steel, with no oak and no oxidation, preserving the pure, exotic character of Savagnin Rose. The result is a bright, direct and unusually expressive Jura white, shaped more by grape, place and old vines than by cellar work.
