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Jura - The Growing Environment and Grape Growing - Grape varieties

Q: What is the other black variety, beside Poulsard, in Jura? What are the characteristics?

Thick skins , giving it resistance to fungal diseases, As a vigorous variety, it requires careful canopy management. To ripen fully it needs a warm site (for example, warm gravels and by planting it on either the warm lower part of the slope or on well-exposed higher, steeper slopes). The wines are pale ruby in colour and have low intensity red fruit (red cherry), low to medium tannins, medium to high acidity, low end of medium alcohol and a light to medium (–) body. The wines are typically good to very good in quality and mid- to premium priced.

3 important questions on Jura - The Growing Environment and Grape Growing - Grape varieties

Chardonnay is the most planted variety in Jura, where is it used for?

Cremant de Jura

Savagnin is Jura's next most planted white variety, 20%. Which style of wines are produced, what are the characteristics?

Conventional white wines; high acidity, lemon and apple
Wine in oxidative style including Vin Jaune
Buds early, spring frost risk
Thick skinned, good resistance
Best on steep slopes with marl

What is the other black variety, beside Poulsard, in Jura? What are the characteristics?

Thick skins, giving it resistance to fungal diseases,
As a vigorous variety, it requires careful canopy management.
To ripen fully it needs a warm site (for example, warm gravels and by planting it on either the warm lower part of the slope or on well-exposed higher, steeper slopes).
The wines are pale ruby in colour and have low intensity red fruit (red cherry), low to medium tannins, medium to high acidity, low end of medium alcohol and a light to medium (–) body.
The wines are typically good to very good in quality and mid- to premium priced.