Domaine Courbet, Côtes du Jura “Trousseau de la Vallée”

The Courbet family’s home village is Nevy-sur-Seille, right beneath the famed hill of Château-Chalon in the center of the Jura. Founded in 1869, Domaine Courbet is now run by the father and son team of Jean-Marie and Damien Courbet, with Damien taking control in 2011. A long résumé belies his youthful exuberance—stints at California’s Au Bon Climat, Alsace’s Zind-Humbrecht, and Nicolas Potel’s projects in both Burgundy and South Africa are among the highlights. Having such wide-ranging international experience must only have deepened his appreciation for his home region, which is underpinned by a vein of Jurassic limestone as profound as anything found in Burgundy. Located in a section of the Jura known as the upper Seille, the domaine’s holdings span a mere 7.5 hectares on the lower and mid-slopes of the Jura mountains. Farming has been organic and biodynamic since 2005 and everything is harvested manually. The younger, low-yielding vines for their “Trousseau de la Vallée” hail from t