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House
- Producer
- Michel Gahier
- Founded
- 1990
- Founder
- Michel Gahier
- Home region
- Montigny-les-Arsures, Arbois, Jura, France
- Flagship
- Trousseau Les Grands Vergers
- Ownership
- Gahier family
The Gahier family has lived in the Jura since 1525; Michel inherited the family vines, made his own wine from the 1980s and began bottling under his own name in 1990, farming about six hectares organically as a protégé of Jacques Puffeney.
Michel Gahier lives in the centre of Montigny-les-Arsures near Arbois, regarded as the finest terroir for Trousseau in the Jura. He tends 6 hectares of vines meticulously (3 ha Trousseau, remainder Melon a Queue Rouge, Chardonnay and Savagnin), making wine using the traditional techniques of the Jura, prized for purity and minerality.
Chambers Street WinesSustainability / production facts
- no sulphites added at any stage
- vines just over 46 years old (Les Follasses 2023 per importer page; shelf name carries no cuvee)
Savagnin
Michel Gahier Jura Chardonnay
Description
Fresh, lively Chardonnay typical of Jura ouille style, all about mineral salinity, with just a hint of oxidative qualities; freshest of Michel's white wines, most suited to early drinking Grapes: Chardonnay (no % stated; Les Follasses listing states 100% Chardonnay).
- Type
- White
- Varietal
- Savagnin
- Grapes
- Country
- France
- Colour
- White
- Price band
- $60+
- ABV
- 12.7%
- Oak
- Ouille style: barrels topped up during maturation so the wine does not oxidise; no new oak stated
- Vineyard & soil
- White marl (Les Follasses A); red marl mixed with white marl in Les Follasses B
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