Jura Originals
New Arrivals from François Rousset-Martin
by Jennifer Oakes
What do you do when life gives you “lemons”? If you’re a vigneron in France’s Jura region, and destructive weather decimates your vineyards, you make fascinatingly captivating wine with grapes purchased from generous compatriots in Burgundy. Here is where the winemaker’s skilled hand is most evident: accessing local native yeasts and raising wines under the singular conditions of François’s chilly cellar yields creations that are wonderfully and uniquely “Jura.”