Notes Robert Parker: I love the fluorescent yellow color of the Chardonnay 2016 Grusse en Billat, which portrays a pungent nose and feels very mineral and complex, with a bitter touch that feels very Jura—different from Burgundy—finishing long and dry. All of Ganevat's whites from 2016 are between 12% and 13.2% alcohol, and 2016 was a fresh vintage here, fresher than the ripe 2015 and very different from the often-exotic 2016 whites from Burgundy that had the concentration effect of the frost that didn't hit here until 2017. But these 2016s feel a lot more powerful than what they are. This is intense, and I love the magic color it has! I think this could be the last vintage for this wine, as he gave this vineyard to Kenjiro Kagami from Domaine des Miroirs (look him up in this very same issue, because his wines are mind-boggling). Or maybe he gave him part and kept another part, I'll try to ask Ganevat next time... No shipping outside EU Stored in underground cellar. 2019 is a very good vintage, and some wines can feel a little exotic. The 2019 Chardonnay En Billat, still unbottled almost four years after the harvest like the rest of the whites, was quite perfumed and a little exuberant. It comes from vines planted in 1973 and 1980 on marl soils in the neighboring village of Grusse. It is elegant, salty and floral to the point where it feels a little like a Savagnin. The same wine in amphora, which will represent one-third of the cuvée, feels more reductive and citrusy.