Les Valseuses (Antoine Le Court-Chedevergne & Julia Naar)
Les-planche-pres-Arbois, Jura
Négociant winemaking with organic grapes purchased from friends' vines.
First vintage was in 2018.
Antoine Le Court-Chedevergne (Angers, France) and Julia Naar (Rio, Brazil) are part of an exciting new wave of winemaking talent to come through in the Jura region. Antoine's journey has taken him across the world making both wine and spontaneous ferment beer - from Australia to California and Brazil, where he met Julia. Most influentially he spent a year working with Alice Bouvot in Arbois and in whose cellar he made his first vintage of 'Les Valseuses' wines in 2018. Now the couple have purchased a stunning guesthouse, Casa Antolia, in the small village of Les-Planches-près-Arbois and are utilizing the centuries old cellar beneath the property.
They are in the process of planting their own vines nearby and in the meantime have travelled France to harvest organic fruit from friends around the country. The product of their labor is one of the most unique and daring négociant projects in France. In the cellar, gentle but long macerations are favored, and blends of red and white varieties are common. There is neither pigeage nor pumping over and only ever one racking, with everything done b y hand, including bottling. The resulting wines are
concentrated and startlingly pure, these characteristics only emphasized by the long élevage and time in bottle.
The name of each cuvée pays homage to the music they love from around the world that has inspired them along the way.