Chardonnay Les Chazaux, 2023

Riper and a little exotic, the rounder sibling in Nicolas Jacob's Jura Chardonnays, made with nothing added at all.

Les Chazaux is a 2.5-hectare single vineyard straddling two different kinds of limestone, farmed biodynamically by Nicolas Jacob, a former right-hand man at Domaine Macle. The juice ferments on its own wild yeasts in old foudres — large oak casks — and stays there for 22 months, with no additions of any kind, sulphur included. Where his L'Étoile wines run taut, this one leans riper, with an exotic edge to the fruit and the length that long, quiet barrel time brings.