Domaine Ganevat

I e-mailed this thread to the importer. He loved it. He then called me and we chatted and the wines are gettable, but let me put my retail hat on for a second here. They don't sell and they are pricey. They used to sell. At Crush I rocked the Pinot Noir from '04 and '05, and it was very fairly priced. We carried the Chardonnay '03 (which was the best '03 European white I tasted) and the sparkler called "Oh" which does not do much for me. The oxidized Savagnin was the slowest seller but startling wine. At CSW they sold very very slowly. Much slower than Crush. Apparently Jeffrey told me that Ganevat believes his '08 Pinot Noir is the best vintage of this wine he has ever made. I believe it as I preferred the '04 to the '05 immensely. Seems like his Pinot does better in cooler vintages. You can also get some cuvee of the Savangin "Ouille" at Cookshop. Maybe an '08? Not sure. The sommelier there, Richard, special ordered a case.

So they are not tough to get at all, just hard to sell once they are gotten.

And Joe, glad you have had better luck with the Trousseau than I have had. Same luck with the Poulsard? I have opened two and both were crazy infected with some dark, evil bacteria.

I know he made 1300 bottles of his '08 Trousseau. So production is tiny.
 
In October of last year I tried these three. The Trousseau was actually my favorite. The ones Eric loved were mostly white, though.

2007 Domaine Jean-Franois Ganevat Ctes du Jura Poulsard Cuve de l'Enfant Terrible 11.5%
Very pale, almost ros. Aromas of strawberry and cloves, with a touch of tomato as the glass empties. More acid than sweet, light and flowery. Not sure I like this; much prefer the poulsards weve had from Tissot and Overnoy/Houillon.

2006 Domaine Jean-Franois Ganevat Ctes du Jura Pinot Noir Cuve Julien 12.5%
Aromas of cherry, raspberry, and chalk, with some smoked meat notes towards the end. Attractive fruit, good acidity, excellent balance. Light secondary fermentation frizziness. Fine, but could use a touch more body.

2006 Domaine Jean-Franois Ganevat Ctes du Jura Trousseau Plein Sud 13.0%
Aromas of red fruit and gunpowder. Good acidity, excellent balance, good mouth feel. My WOTN by a capillary because of the body, despite the pinots more alluring nose.
 
I've also had the '06 Trousseau Plein Sud and loved it. It was, however, close to my tolerance limit for funky barnyard. I would buy again. The vignes de mon pere is remarkable as noted above. Really a crystalline, driving wine.
 
Well, this was an expensive thread. I go to CSW's web site to get some '08 Ganevat and find all sorts of irresistible goodies in the new arrivals. Did anyone else catch all those Vallana Spannas?
 
Every bottle of the Trousseau I've tried stank severely. The Pinot Noir and Chardonnays have been beautiful -- agreed about that 2003.
 
We can reread Joe, is in fact the better assessment of fact. And enjoy his words again.

Joe and I were with the Dressner group when we discovered Ganevat at the Dive in 2010. Looking-at-one-another excitement.

Then all were at dinner in Saumur, upstairs at a crazy resto, where half the LDM team got sick the next day (I did, too), and the person we would later identify as Fanfan was running around pouring from magnum (unrelated to sickness).

Joe ordered an andouillette. One of the LDM group later posted a picture of it to Facebook, so were the Americans squeamish about tripe sausage.*

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That was the evening Dressner asked me to come sit next to him, he wanted to talk. He had had his tumor for a year and a half at that point and was doing better. He started talking to me in French, with his awesome Queens accent. We spoke in French about life, disbelief in afterlife, the way people treat you; there's no religion, too.

I’ll always remember that evening.

*Joe did not get sick, N.B.
 
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea."

- Eric Cantona
 
as an old man once said to me, life is easy; death is the problem.

fingerbanging is a halfway house, i guess.

how's it working for you?

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