Maison Maenad Réveil Spectrale (Savagnin) 2022

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Katie grows these grapes in the limestone and marle soils at the lieu dit Au Carre, Maison Maenad’s home vineyard in Grusse. It was made in tiny quantities. It is also one of the most extraordinary wines we’ve tasted in a long while. Far from the name, it’s not one that will be escaping our minds any time soon.

Emerging after two years in oak barrels in the winery under Katie’s house in Orbagna, the wine is very Juracian, with traces of the region’s oxidative wine traditions despite being a topped up wine.

Immediately it’s extremely savoury, richly umami, with a little bit of burnt caramel quality. It manages the feat of being both very concentrated, and uplifting and bright. Not at all difficult or fatiguing to drink - in fact, it’s extremely moreish.

Réveil Spectral is a really special wine, truly memorable. The only shame is that we have so little of it.

ABOUT THE PRODUCER

In just a handful of vintages Katie Worobeck has already announced herself as one of the Jura’s brightest young talents and one to watch in this most exciting of regions.

Originally from Canada, Katie developed an interest in wine and organic farming whilst studying, and after several years working amongst the vines in her native Ontario, she moved to France and landed a dream job working alongside the legendary Anne and Jean-François Ganevat in the Jura’s South.

After five years working alongside the Ganevats, Katie began looking after a parcel of old vines planted over clay and limestone in the Sud Revermont’s famed lieu-dit ‘Les Varrons’. Here she grows Chardonnay, along with a few rows of Gamay and old hybrids. She now tends a further three hectares of old vines planted over limestone and marl in the picturesque lieu-dit of ‘Au Carre’. Surrounded by forest high in the hills around Grusse, here all the Jurassic varieties are present.