Chateau de l'Etoile, L'Etoile, Clos de la Colinette 2024

“Clos de la Colinette” 2024 is the estate’s flagship Savagnin, and one of the most exciting bottles from Louis Fourrier’s first vintage at the historic Jura property. It comes from a tiny, isolated monopole surrounded by forest, creating a cool microclimate that allowed the grapes to be harvested about two weeks later than the rest of the estate. The vines are 60–70 years old.

The wine is 100% Savagnin, farmed sustainably and hand-harvested. Fourrier fermented it spontaneously in stainless steel with native yeast, then aged it in used French Burgundy barrels, topping the barrels to preserve a fresh, ouillé/non-oxidative style rather than making a traditional oxidative Jura Savagnin.

This is a very rare first-vintage monopole from the new Fourrier project. If you like Burgundy whites, this is particularly interesting: it has the precision and restraint of a Burgundian white, but the saline, smoky, exotic character is unmistakably Savagnin and Jura. The estate itself identifies Clos de la Colinette as one of its two monopoles.