Domaine de Savagny

A mid-sized Jura estate at Crançot - a delegated commune within Hauteroche, between Château-Chalon and Baume-les-Messieurs. Founded in 1986 by Claude Rousselot-Pailley, it was acquired around 2001-2002 by Maison du Vigneron - the local Jura arm of Grands Chais de France, one of the country's largest wine groups. That ownership is the single most important thing to know about the place: Domaine de Savagny is a competent, widely-distributed commercial Jura producer, not an artisan estate.

Around 45 hectares of vine (some tourism listings say 62 including négoce sourcing), HVE-certified (not organic, not biodynamic), covering more or less every Jura appellation: Côtes du Jura, Château-Chalon, L'Étoile, Arbois, Crémant du Jura, Macvin. Varieties are the full local set - Chardonnay, Savagnin, Poulsard, Trousseau, Pinot Noir - and both styles are made, ouillé and sous voile, with a Vin Jaune bottling that has taken gold at the Concours Général Agricole in Paris across several vintages. The range runs from the Tradition Chardonnay-Savagnin blend up through the varietal bottlings to Vin Jaune, Vin de Paille, Château-Chalon, Macvin and Marc.

Regular in Guide Hachette, reliable in the category - but not in the artisan Jura circuit. If you are looking for Overnoy-Houillon, Ganevat, Tissot or Labet, this is not that. If you are looking for a consistently-made Vin Jaune at a reasonable price, through conventional trade, it is the other answer.