Le Clos Jordanne wines are a testament to place. The estate's low-intervention winemaking philosophy allows the unique characteristics of each vineyard to shine through. In the cellar, innovative New World practices are combined with time-honored Burgundian techniques, such as harvesting and sorting the grapes by hand, and using 100% French oak barrels. Every step of the process receives careful consideration.

Fermented with indigenous yeasts and long-aged in barrel before bottling, the cuvée is tasted meticulously, barrel-by-barrel, with only the most ‘transparent’ barrels retained… those that support but stay out of the way of the terroir. After bottling, the wines are aged a further four to six months in bottle before release to let the aromatic bouquet and mouthfeel further develop and integrate.

"The team obsesses over the barrel program, searching for those that deliver terroir through oxygenation, polymerization of tannins and concentration, and not just oak flavors! Hence, we experiment tirelessly with coopers, toasts, and forests to find the barrels that express (not mask) our terroir. French barrels remain our choice: the oak comes uniquely from forests in the northeast of France. Due to the trees' slow growth patterns and soils on which they are grown, these forests produce barrels known for their especially tight grain and subtlety of perfume and have an uncanny ability to reinforce our fruit with verve and nuance; to deliver a 'sense of place' with startling transparency." 

- Thomas Bachelder