Romain Lawson and Arianne Stern are a couple who swapped lawyer life and the restaurant business in Paris for the call to the Jura. After settling in the region. Romain studied viticulture and winemaking, before stints with Manu Houillon and Nicolas Jacob. Arianne studied baking and farming. Making her first loaves in Pierre Overnoy’s wood-fired oven, she has become one of the most sought-after bakers in the region. She supplies the best local restaurants including Auberge de Bellevie and Claquets. I confirm, the bread slaps. They are now building up their domaine and establishing their guesthouse, whilst juggling a busy, young family. They were generous with both time and their wines given how precious little they had in barrel after a rough first harvest.

In 2024 they took over from Ludwig Bindernagel of Lulu Vigneron. They worked a final vintage alongside him to fully acquaint themselves with the land and project they were undertaking. A real focus of theirs is the health of the vines and soils. They want a biodiverse environment where the growing cycle works in harmony alongside nature, giving lower but more concentrated yields. In the cellar, they have a very deft touch. As with the best Jurassien reds, things are only lightly extracted and meant to be drunk young and with vigour. The whites will see a minimum of two years of élevage, for more serious and gastronomic wines. Sulphur is used sparingly, and whilst they’d prefer to totally abstain, as new upstart vignerons, they are not dogmatic, and if a splash is needed at bottling they will do so for stability.

Their first harvest suffered like many in the region, and so in 2024 they bought in small amounts of grapes from trusted growers. When I visited a few years back I had the pleasure of tasting most of these in barrel or what had recently been bottled. The wines were pristine. Painfully light and ethereal. Some of the most captivating and uplifting wines of a whirlwind trip drinking only the region’s very best. This négociant range is a good taste of the great things to come. This is one address you need to pay attention to.