Buronfosse

Peggy and Jean-Pascal Buronfosse are not from wine families. They came to Rotalier, a small hamlet in the Sud-Revermont in southern Jura, looking for a simpler life - trained in agriculture rather than oenology, and built a domaine from scratch beginning in 1999-2000 after renting their first parcels from an elderly local vigneron, Raymond Pageault. Their neighbours Jean-François Ganevat (see Anne et J.F. Ganevat) and Julien Labet mentored them in the early years. They acquired parcels one by one, went through organic conversion starting in 2007, and received Ecocert certification in 2010.

Around four to four-and-a-half hectares today, kept small on purpose, on marl, limestone, and schist across the southern Revermont slopes. The five classic Jura varieties - Chardonnay, Savagnin, Poulsard, Trousseau, Pinot Noir - with a clear emphasis on whites. Unlike the more famous Arbois axis to the north, the Sud-Revermont has been quietly claimed by a handful of natural producers working on a Burgundian register - topped-up (ouillé), precise, mineral, not oxidative.

In the cellar: spontaneous fermentation on indigenous yeasts, long élevage (around eighteen months in barrel for whites), unfined, unfiltered, little to no added sulphur. The house style is primarily ouillé, but they do make a small amount of Vin Jaune (first released 2005) and a Vin de Paille-style sweet bottling called Epicure - Chardonnay, Poulsard, and Savagnin, dried for three months before pressing.

Cuvées include Les Bélemnites - a Savagnin-led blend with Chardonnay, named after the fossil cephalopods that sit in the marl beneath the vines - and Entre-Deux (ouillé Savagnin, eighteen months in barrel), alongside site-specific Chardonnays and a Crémant du Jura "Indigène" fermented under sweet must rather than liqueur de tirage. Buronfosse belongs in the same conversation as Labet, Tony Bornard, and Tissot, in the broader lineage that traces back to Overnoy-Houillon - part of the Jura generation that reasserted the idea that Jura whites can age and argue.