This is not your average story of how a cult winemaker came to be, if there is such a thing. Jean-Baptiste was minding his own business, representing France nationally in fencing nonetheless, when he realised it was time things changed. Jean-Baptise’s roots are in the South of France where he spent his childhood, and it was calling him back.

He went to university and spent time in Bordeaux and Burgundy before taking everything he had learned back home and putting it into practice in his own vineyards. Despite all of this, it may be Jura whose influence we see most in his wines. He works with careful deliberate oxidation to give the wine stability and allowing him to work without any fining, filtration, or even sulphites.

The results are wines with crazy intensity; rich and heady with the aromatics we know of Petit and Gros Manseng, but as precise as the épée he put down.