Varieties

Question 1

Chardonnay

Answer 1

This is the most planted variety but much of it goes into Crémant du Jura,

As an early budding variety, it is prone to spring frosts

Question 2

Savagnin

Answer 2

This white variety makes both conventional white wine and wine in oxidative styles including Jura’s most distinctive wine, Vin Jaune

Savagnin buds early and thus is prone to spring frosts.
It is a thick-skinned variety with good resistance to fungal
diseases.
It thrives on the steep slopes with marl.

The conventional wines have
high acidity
medium (–) lemon and apple fruit, 
medium body
medium alcohol.

Question 3

Poulsard

Answer 3

Also known as Ploussard, this is the most planted black variety.

• buds very early, it is vulnerable to spring frost. It is also prone to coulure (leading to reduction in yield)
• it is thin-skinned, making it vulnerable to all fungal diseases
  (and thus requires constant attention, adding to cost).
• it ripens early, enabling growers to harvest it if there is a threat of autumn rain.

Question 4

TASTING NOTE:

Poulsard

Answer 4

The wines are
very pale ruby, almost translucent in colour
low intensity red fruit (redcurrant, cranberry),
low tannins,
high acidity,
low end of medium alcohol
light body.

The wines are typically good to very good in quality and mid- to
premium priced.

Question 5

Pinot Noir

Answer 5

This is the second most planted black variety and is used in multi-variety red blends, in Crémant du Jura and increasingly as a single variety red wine.

Question 6

Trousseau

Answer 6

• This is a black variety with thick skins, giving it resistance to fungal diseases,
• it can suffer from botrytis bunch rot.
• It is prone to poor flowering and coulure, reducing yields.
• it is 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).

Question 7

TASTING NOTE:

Trousseau

Answer 7

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
• light to medium (–) body.

The wines are typically good to very good in quality and mid- to premium priced.