Domaine Labet Cotes du Jura Blanc Cuvee du Hasard N°2 2018 25OFF2024BFCM with all the saline cut

with all the saline cut you want from the appellation

then on Napa Chardonnay juice

with part of the fermentation in wood

finishing with white pepper and a peacock's tail of complexity

Domaine Labet Cotes du Jura Blanc Cuvee du Hasard N°2 2018 25OFF2024BFCM with all the saline cutThe name means "cuvee of chance," and that's exactly the spirit here. At Domaine Labet, the Rotalier based family that helped rewrite the rules for modern Jura whites, this Chardonnay gets the old school treatment: aged roughly six years in old barrels under a veil of yeast (the N2 is the extra long sous voile bottling) (the same flor that gives Vin Jaune its magic), without topping up the barrels. The result is a white that trades freshness for