Chevassu Fassenet Cremant du Jura, France

Marie-Pierre Chevassu-Fassenet was brought up with her three sisters in Menetru. Her mother Marie came from a family of vignerons and her father Denis farmed mainly cows. He took on some vineyards in the 1980s and, as all his daughters enjoyed helping, he expanded the business and started making and selling wine.
Marie-Pierre chose a career in wine and after wine studies in Beaune and an oenology degree at Dijon she worked in New Zealand, Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Champagne before returning to work in the Jura for several years as cellar manager in a local co-op. Les Granges-Bernard is a wonderful old Jurassien farm surrounded atmospheric
cellars at the farm are full of old wood from large foudres down to fûts and feuillettes.

Winemaking: Direct pressing of the whole bunches is followed by one-night of lees settling, before transferring to neutral vats for fermentation. The fermentation begins naturally using only indigenous yeasts. A very low dose of sulfur is added after the completion of alcoholic fermentation and the Vin Clair does not go through malolactic fermentation. Aged 5 months in neutral vats, after which the Liqueur de Tirage is added to the Vin Clair to start the secondary fermentation. The wine is bottled under a crown cap and a second fermentation occurs in the bottle.

100% Chardonnay