Domaine de Montbourgeau Cremant du Jura Brut Zero Style_Blanco on volcanic rock

on volcanic rock

the winery remains a family affair

a cool cloudy spring that reduced yields and berry size

Just real vodka

shaped by volcanic rock rather than limestone richness

Domaine de Montbourgeau Cremant du Jura Brut Zero Style_Blanco on volcanic rockThe Land L'toile is one of the smallest appellations in France, just 52 hectares folded into the southwestern corner of the Jura. The name means star, credited either to the five hills that ring the village or, more likely, to the fossilized starfish scattered through the ground here. Those soils are the whole point: grey and blue marls laced with limestone scree and marine fossils, cool and deeply mineral. The climate is continental and unforgiving