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Jongieux Blanc Jacquère – Fruity Savoie White Wine

Bottle of Jongieux Blanc Domaine Chevallier Bernard - Fruity white wine from Savoie
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Jongieux Blanc

🍇 Grape variety : Jacquère

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Rating

Fresh and expressive white wine with white fruit aromas. Lively attack with beautiful freshness. Light texture with a delicately mineral finish. - Wine consultant

4.5/5

Winemaking

The harvest is done by hand, allowing careful sorting of the grapes. Fermentation takes place at controlled temperature to preserve the freshness and fruity aromas of the wine.

Tasting notes

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Couleur

Brilliant and clear robe, pale yellow with greenish highlights, evoking the clarity of the mountains and the freshness of Savoyard streams.

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Nez

Fresh and expressive nose, marked by white fruit aromas such as juicy pear and green apple. Delicate floral notes of white flowers mingle with a hint of citrus that bring liveliness and lightness.

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Bouche

The attack is lively and dynamic, with immediate freshness. The palate is fluid and elegant, with a tension that gives the wine relief. Flavors of fresh pear and apple accompanied by citrus. The texture is light, almost airy, with a delicately mineral finish and a slight salinity reminiscent of the alpine origin.

Wine and food pairings

This fresh and fruity Jacquère pairs perfectly with traditional Savoyard dishes such as raclette or Savoyard Fondue, where its liveliness balances the richness of melted cheese. Also ideal as an aperitif, or with grilled fish and Moules Marinière with Fries and Jongieux Jacquère White Wine from Domaine Chevallier Bernard.

Aging potential

This Jacquère is a wine to enjoy within the year to benefit from its freshness and fruity aromas. It has limited aging potential.

Description

Jongieux Blanc is a typically Savoyard wine, made from the Jacquère grape variety, the most cultivated in Savoie, representing half of the region's vineyards. This grape variety produces generous clusters that take on rosy hues at the end of ripening. Our Jongieux Blanc is a low-alcohol, fresh, light, mineral, and very fruity wine, perfect to enjoy young and appreciate its full range of aromas. We cultivate this grape variety on 4.5 hectares across different terroirs of Jongieux in Savoie, which allows us to create a wine with varied characteristics while staying true to the authenticity of our terroir.

The grapes are harvested by hand and then carefully transported to the press to ensure their integrity. The must, tangy and rich in varietal aromas, ferments slowly in our cellars under temperature control to preserve the wine's freshness and minerality. Regularly awarded at competitions, Jongieux Blanc is a safe bet, which pairs perfectly with Savoyard specialties, notably fondue. If you're looking for the perfect wine to accompany your meals, you've found it!

Frequently asked questions

For raclette, go for a dry, crisp white wine from Savoie, like our Jongieux Blanc made from Jacquère. Its freshness and lively acidity balance the richness of the melted cheese, and its lightness (11.5% ABV) makes it a pleasant companion throughout a hearty meal. For more complexity, try our Face à la Dent cuvée. Prefer red? A light, fruity Jongieux Rouge Gamay also goes very well with the cheese.

Jacquère is the traditional choice: crisp, mineral and low in alcohol, it brings the freshness you need alongside melted cheese. In fact, our Jongieux Blanc is the wine we serve with our Savoyard fondue recipe.

Serve it chilled, between 8 and 10 °C, to bring out its aromas of pear, green apple and citrus. Too cold, and it would lose some of its fruitiness.

Jongieux Blanc is best enjoyed within the year to make the most of its freshness and fruity aromas. If you are looking for a Savoie white wine for ageing, choose the Face à la Dent cuvée instead, which keeps for 2 to 5 years.

Jacquère is Savoie's signature white grape: on its own, it accounts for half of the region's vineyards. It makes fresh, light and mineral wines. At the estate, we grow it on 4.5 hectares spread across the different terroirs of Jongieux, where it is harvested by hand.