Notes from Rare Wine Co:

"It seems like only yesterday that Jura wines were, to quote Billie Holiday, as cold as yesterday’s mashed potatoes.  They excited the market the way Swiss wines do. But no more.
 
Today, the Old Guard gems of Puffeney and Macle can easily set you back $500 to $1000 a bottle, if you can find them. And the rarest cuvées of the new generation of superstars—Ganevat, Overnoy and disciples—have also skyrocketed in price. 
 
So little is made that the price of admission can be as steep as for the most iconic red Burgundies.
 
There’s one more name to add to the list of Jura unicorns: Philippe Bornard. In France, Bornard is a cult figure, even appearing on a French reality dating show. And, under normal times, if an underpriced bottle of Bornard’s best ever appeared on a Parisian or Arbois wine list, it would get snapped up as quickly as a bottle of Ente or Truchot in New York. 
 
Part of Bornard’s allure is that many of his 7 hectares of vines are in the limestone-clay amphitheater of Pupillin, Arbois’s finest cru. Those that are not are in the Côtes du Jura. He works with the rare native red varities of Poulsard and Trousseau; the white Savagnin and Chardonnay and a small plot of Melon-Queue-Rouge, an anicent relative of Chardonnay. The whites are made in both the classic semi-oxidative sous voile and the non-oxidative ouillé styles. He also makes a classic vin jaune which will appear in a later offer."

Notes on the Cuvee:

"From diverse marl soils in the Côtes du Jura, Philippe’s Chardonnay Les Gaudrettes is rich and highly aromatic, underpinned by very complex minerality. Like its Le Blanc de la Rouge Chardonnay stablemate, Gaudrettes was aged in carefully topped up old barrels for a transparent articulation of site character."