About Jura wine in eastern France
February 16, 2011
Jura Wine
Jura is a small wine region in eastern France, responsible for some traditional and highly idiosyncratic wine styles. Equidistant (35 miles/56km) from Burgundy in the west and Switzerland in the east, the region is characterized by a landscape of wooded hillsides and the twisting topography of the Jura mountains.
Originating from a long, narrow area just under 50 miles (80km) from north to south, Jura’s wines are made from vineyards which cover just over 4570 acres (1850 hectares). This figure is steadily increasing, but still represents less than one tenth of the area under vine here two centuries ago, before phylloxera decimated the region’s vineyards. The wines are sold under five core appellations, the most quantitatively important of which are Arbois and Cotes du Jura.
There are five main grape varieties used in the region’s wines, three traditional varieties and two more modern, more popular imports. The first of the local varieties is Poulsard (or Ploussard as it is known in the communes of Arbois and Pupillin), a red grape which accounts for about one fifth of the region’s plantings. It is used mostly in dry red wines, but also in sparkling rose wines. Trousseau, the other local red variety, requires high sunshine levels to mature properly, and covers only the warmest 5% of the region’s vineyards. It is grown mostly around Arbois, where it makes a small quantity of varietal wines. White Savagnin (known locally as Nature) is used in all of the region’s appellations, and is responsible for the most idiosyncratic of its wines, the vins jaunes. Better known as the key grapes of Burgundy, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay are the two ‘international’ grape varieties used here. Despite the relative isolation of Jura, Chardonnay’s increasing international popularity has had its effect here, as in other French regions. The variety, known locally as Melon d’Arbois and Gamay Blanc now represents nearly one half of Jura’s total vineyard, and is most often used to make wines in a fresher, fruiter, more modern style.
Jura has been known traditionally for its sweet vins de paille and its unique vin jaune. The vins de paille do not have an appellation in the own right, but are made under the Arbois (including Arbois-Pupillin), L’Etoile and Cotes du Jura titles. The region’s vins jaunes ‘yellow wines’ may also be made under these appellations, but are at their best under the Chateau Chalon title, reserved exclusively for them. Dry white wines are also made in the region, increasingly from Chardonnay, and the same is true of dry red wines and Pinot Noir (although Poulsard is still the dominant red variety). Sparkling wines have been made in Jura since the eighteenth century, and are now made from about 520 acres (210 hectares) of vineyards, under the Cremant du Jura appellation introduced in 1995.
To a geologist, it will come as no surprise to learn that the key soil types here are Jurassic limestone and marlstone. The Jurassic geological period was named after Jura because the limestone mountains here are representative of the geological developments between 145,000,000 and 200,000,000 years ago. L’Etoile, the village which is home one of Jura’s most distinctive appellations, is reputed to have got its name from the star-shaped marine fossils which characterize the limestone-rich soils there (etoile is French for ‘star’). Chablis and the upper Loire Valley are built on a similar geological structure.
The climate in which Jura’s vines grow is not dissimilar to that of Cote d’Or, or even southern Alsace, with warm, relatively dry summers and cold winters. The variation between valleys and hillside locations is quite pronounced here, as a result of the increased altitude. While the eastern, more mountainous areas of Jura reach heights of over 4500ft (1370m), the main wine-growing belt is restricted to the slightly lower-lying land in the west, averaging 1000ft (305m). Most of Jura’s vines are planted on south-facing slopes, to make the most of the sun’s rays in this cool climate.
Source: http://www.wine-searcher.com/regions-jura
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